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.
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> 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? > > > -- > 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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