Painful "You'll be redirected to the unlock dialog in a few seconds" - Does it have to be there?

[davelindquist]

The new light-locker seems to have implemented a very painful dialog + delay -- when you switch to a session that is locked, you get:

This session is locked
You'll be redirected to the unlock 
dialog automatically in a few seconds.

This delay (before the unlock dialog comes up) is PAINFUL; several seconds of wait time. Is there a reason that this has to be there? The older versions did not have this; why was this delay added? Can it be removed, or configured out?

Thanks very much!

[psjbeisler]

this pegs my SSD and rarely recovers even. I end up having to reboot and finally just uninstalled it before it killed my hardware...

[adrhc]

did you tried CTRL + ALT + F7?

[davelindquist]

Yeah, CTRL - ALT - F7 is an easy way to make this happen.

It seems like it's doing something weird like:

• On the locked VT, displaying the message.
• Preparing the greeter on a separate VT
• Switching to that VT after a delay
• Then, when I enter username and password on the greeter VT, unlocking and switching back to the real VT

But this is just a rough hypothesis.

Can anyone explain exactly what is going on, and why this message is needed? (light-locker never used to do this -- how did it work before?)

Thanks!

[psjbeisler]

my keyboard wouldnt even work, it was almost like a kernel panic, I just stopped using it all together...

[micw]

Hello,
I haven't seen that issue for months after I did a freh install of archlinux. But a few days ago,it reappeared. Switching VTs does not help :-(

[micw]

I give up with light-locker. That "something is broken after suspend" kills my whole prodoctivity.

My current workaround is:

• removed light-locker from system
• Changed the lock command: xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /general/LockCommand -s "dm-tool switch-to-greeter"
• Enabled Lock-On-Syspend: xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /shutdown/LockScreen -t bool -s true --create

This gives me a working setup where I get a lightdm greeter screen after suspend or when I manually lock the screen.

[foresto]

+1

See also: #94

[Zeioth]

I can confirm, the issue is back. See #146
I'm downgrading systemd by now.

EDIT: For those on arch, replacing arch mirrors by manjaro mirrors is an easy fix (and a way to prevent future issues)

[malteger]

My current workaround is:

• removed light-locker from system
• Changed the lock command: xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /general/LockCommand -s "dm-tool switch-to-greeter"
• Enabled Lock-On-Syspend: xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /shutdown/LockScreen -t bool -s true --create

This gives me a working setup where I get a lightdm greeter screen after suspend or when I manually lock the screen.

@micw For me this workaround left the session unlocked, ctrl + alt + F7 just switches back to the desktop

[micw]

The lock-on-suspend stopped to work for me after I rebootet. The "dm-tool switch-to-greeter" still works. You can test it by just issuing the command.
I switched to xfce4-screensaver now which simply works.

[petrmanek]

After a recent update, I'm also getting this bug. Running light-locker 1.8.0-2 with systemd 243.51-1 on arch (5.3.1.arch1-1). My current workaround is not to run light-locker at all.

[Laurencio]

I have this issue too. on Mx Linux 18.3.
That dialog appears and lies because no matter how long you wait it will still be there. I have to Ctrl+Shift+Backspace to restart session.

[vedavrat]

I have this issue too on GarudaLinux (ArchLinux) after Suspend.
To have the access to XFCE, I have to kill (-9) light-locker from Ctrl-Alt-F2 terminal (VT)...

light-locker 1.9.0-4 (community)
Linux 5.16.0-zen1-1-zen ZEN SMP PREEMPT 10 Jan 2022 20:12
OS: Garuda Linux x86_64 1.4 Soaring (White-tailed-eagle)
DE: Xfce 4.16
WM: Xfwm4
WM Theme: Default
Theme: Prof-XFCE-2.1
CPU: Intel i7-2620M (4) @ 3.400GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1920x1080

[DarkLight5668]

this pegs my SSD and rarely recovers even. I end up having to reboot and finally just uninstalled it before it killed my hardware...

It can kill hardware? I also got session locked idk what to do

[DarkLight5668]

did you tried CTRL + ALT + F7?

I did this and my session got locked what should I do?

[alejandro-colomar]

Still a problem on Debian Sid.

$ dpkg -l | grep light-locker
ii  light-locker                          1.8.0-3                                   amd64        simple screen locker for lightDM display manager

[ig3]

Still occurring on Debian 12/bookworm

light-locker/stable,now 1.8.0-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]