On 01/06/2012 01:28 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
I've noticed that occasionally the authentication box doesn't come up,
but you can still type in your password and press enter to unlock the
session. I suspect killing the screensaver process from another tty
would get you in as well.
hmmmm. Considering what <alt-F2>r was doing, this might have worked.
Will watch for it next time.
I haven't bothered to track down the cause, but I know the issue isn't
unique to Fedora. My wife discovered the problem and solution on her
laptop loaded with Ubuntu.
Hth,
--pete
On Jan 6, 2012 10:45 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <r...@htt-consult.com
<mailto:r...@htt-consult.com>> wrote:
This happens once in a while, but this is the 2nd time this week,
though the symtoms were different.
The latest occurance, I locked the screen <ctl-alt-l> and came
back later to use the system. I hit an arrow key which normally
brings up the password dialog box and even before the box showed
up I started typing in my password. This normailly works fine and
opens up to the workspace I was last on.
This time nothing happened. There was a flash across the screen
like the dialog box coming up, but the screen stayed black other
than the portion of the top panel that normally shows when the
screen is locked. I was able to <ctl-alt-F2> to another console
and back. I tried <alt-F1> then 'r' and saw the spindizzy but
nothing after that. In the end, I rebooted by logging into the F2
console. Perhaps I should have done a tail on messages first?
Various things have happened over the past month on f16 with gnome
3. Not coming out of suspend and having to ppull all power for a
hard boot recovery (AC and battery). Gnome locking on me with no
keyboard or mouse clicks, though the mouse will mouse around.
So it is still unstable for me.
Advise on trouble shooting?
Oh, and to the point of pulling the battery to get to a hard boot
state..... My brother-in-law was talking about his recent
purchase of a notebook with a sealed battery; ie he cannot remove
it. His question was on which kind of warranty to get. But now
my question is: does anyone have a notebook with a sealed battery
and if so, how do they recover when nothing works? When you
cannot switch to another console and the power button does
nothing? How do you force a boot if you can't pull all power?
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