I had a similar (if not identical problem). This solution is a "difficult" solution, the reason I experienced this (if I understand) was that I was running KDE at the same time I was updating KDE. I can't remember if I simply rebooted, or if all it took was logging out, and logging back in. Even if I had rebooted, the *most* that should be required is restarting X, which if you are running XDM may require restarting XDM, or as stated, simply logging out and logging back in (but that might not be possible from KDE running in this broken mode). It should happen relatively infrequently.
If you are doing unattended updates, you are likely to run into this kind of problem from time to time. I do not recommend it except for "security" updates, which I don't believe there is an automated process in Gentoo to do. Ie. I don't believe Portage flags updates as "security" updates in any way, so a single command of "emerge --update --security-only @word" (to my knowledge) isn't really a possibility. Though, also, I haven't been following recent discussions that closely, and I only recently returned to Gentoo after about 10 years away. On 09/11/2017 10:49 AM, Mick wrote: > I started a plasma session and after some period of input inactivity I > noticed > the screen blanked out. Later on I moved the mouse and to my surprise I > obtained this message: > ********************* > "The screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible anymore. > In order to unlock switch to a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F2), > log in and execute the command: > > loginctl unlock-sessions > > Afterwards switch back to the running session (Ctrl+Alt+F7)." > ********************* > > Given this is a non-systemd Gentoo installation and I intend to keep it this > way as long as reasonably practicable, what should I instruct the user to do > to recover their current plasma session? > > If this is a default Gentoo installation with openrc, why does a default > plasma desktop screenlocker comes up with this nonsense? >
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