I think I figured the screen-lock out quite by accident: perhaps the solution that you are looking for is "space-bar then the Enter key"
hope this helps, Richard On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Bryn M. Reeves <b...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/06/2013 11:04 AM, Jean Jacques wrote: > >> >> Has any one encountered the problem that the screen cannot back from >> lock? The new lock screen does not unlock after the password has been >> entered. >> >> >> > I've seen similar behaviour in a few situations: when the load on the box > is extremely high it may take minutes (or tens of minutes if severely > stressed) for the authentication to complete. I've seen this with runaway > browsers and other processes chewing memory and CPU time. Typically in this > case the password dialog is also slow to appear and the cursor may be laggy > and unresponsive. > > The other one that comes to mind is a problem with authentication itself - > if using network auth then a problem with the network or backend service > may cause unlock delays. This should be less of a problem with local > authentication. > > Finally, you might have a deadlock or task blocked on IO - for e.g. a > kernel or driver bug or some storage device. I've seen this with file > system bugs for e.g. when some IO never completes. > > Depending on where things are stuck you may be able to switch to a virtual > terminal, log in, and debug from there. > > Regards, > Bryn. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/users<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**Mailing_list_guidelines<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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