Black screen with mouse pointer after login after screen lock

This happens after changing from kernel 5.4 to 5.10.

After reboot and login everything is fine. But once screen get automatically locked and after login get a black screen with only visible mouse pointer.

If terminal was open and focus was of it before screen lock, I can start an application that has an UI like ms vs code or Firefox then the screen is re-draw and everything is fine again. When screen gets auto locked, then it get same issue.

I have tried things found in other topics like update repo mirrors, update system, clean .cache/, changed back to kernel 5.4, but nothing helps.

I read other similar topics but nothing worked so far.

Your help will be highly appreciated.

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What happens if you change to kernel 6.1 or 6.6? (current iterations)

thanks for your reply.

Installed 6.1 and tried it, but same issue.

I use KDE; it’s been a while since using Xfce, so all I could do is guess. However, more information may improve things.

Could you post the output of:

inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width

This will give others enough information to start with. Good luck.

Here is my inxi output:

System:
  Kernel: 5.4.262-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64
    root=UUID=34200cf0-3f43-44a5-9dd6-bbfb8aaeb3e1 rw quiet
    resume=UUID=964b0fc9-3f91-4bb8-a8ab-09c7129aac7d
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X470 AORUS GAMING 5 WIFI v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: X470 AORUS GAMING 5 WIFI-CF v: x.x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F3 date: 08/08/2018
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard serial: <filter>
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 32 GiB available: 31.37 GiB used: 2.22 GiB (7.1%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ gen: 2
    level: v3 note: check built: 2018-21 process: GF 12nm family: 0x17 (23)
    model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 0x800820D
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 768 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x64 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 16 MiB
    desc: 2x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2645 high: 3989 min/max: 2200/3700 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 3320 2: 3342
    3: 2132 4: 2088 5: 2117 6: 3230 7: 2205 8: 2232 9: 3802 10: 2341 11: 2167
    12: 2154 13: 3989 14: 2196 15: 2628 16: 2383 bogomips: 118419
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
    bmi2 bpext clflush clflushopt clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb
    cpuid cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c
    flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb irperf
    lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr
    mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat
    pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb
    pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sep sev
    sev_es sha_ni skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
    ssse3 succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale
    v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec
    xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2070 Rev. A] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 545.xx+
    status: current (as of 2023-11; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
    process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-2022 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f07 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.9 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 7295x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1930x572mm (75.98x22.52")
    s-diag: 2013mm (79.25")
  Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: primary,right res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 161
    size: 607x345mm (23.9x13.58") diag: 698mm (27.49") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: HDMI-0 pos: left res: 3264x1836 hz: 60 dpi: 139
    size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27.01") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0b:00.3
    chip-ID: 1022:1457 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k5.4.262-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: off tools: pw-cli
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: 1: pulseaudio-alsa
    type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2526 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp5s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Gigabyte driver: igb
    v: 5.6.0-k pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp6s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter driver: btusb v: 0.8
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-2:2
    chip-ID: 8087:0025 class-ID: e001
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
    lmp-v: 10 status: discoverable: yes pairing: yes class-ID: 7c0104
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.53 TiB used: 288.54 GiB (6.2%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Intenso model: SATA III SSD
    size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: BA.3 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD40EZRZ-00GXCB0 size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 0A80 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 430.9 GiB size: 423.07 GiB (98.18%)
    used: 173.69 GiB (41.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 label: N/A
    uuid: 34200cf0-3f43-44a5-9dd6-bbfb8aaeb3e1
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 25.4 MiB (8.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 label: N/A
    uuid: 1EB2-B600
  ID-3: /disco/data01 raw-size: 3.09 TiB size: 3.04 TiB (98.40%)
    used: 114.82 GiB (3.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 label: data3t
    uuid: e87f9053-4899-431a-9df4-d30c6b610db6
  ID-4: /disco/data02 raw-size: 417.62 GiB size: 410 GiB (98.18%)
    used: 52 KiB (0.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: data02
    uuid: 415e6b63-6eab-4925-a184-d4627fb16ac2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 34.56 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: N/A
    uuid: 964b0fc9-3f91-4bb8-a8ab-09c7129aac7d
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 29.51 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
    uuid: f8655952-7e14-47fd-ae85-82f50199222e
  ID-2: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 560.73 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: 7277793253FB399B
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter
    type: bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 8087:0025 class-ID: e001
  Device-2: 1-9:3 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: keyboard,mouse
    driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 98mA
    chip-ID: 046d:c534 class-ID: 0301
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-7: 7-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-8: 8-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0
    speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 346 Uptime: 1h 7m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 254
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 alt: 12
  clang: 16.0.6 Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1505 libs: 429 tools: pamac
  pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 running-in: xfce4-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.31

what ca I do now, thanks

I have same issue

XFCE: 4.18
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
Kernel: Linux 6.1.64-1-MANJARO
Architecture: x86-64
Hardware Vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Hardware Model: P8Z77-V LX
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

Hi, the issue persists, but like to report what I have done so far.

Deleted the $HOME/.config folder and that “fixed” the issue: Screen is re-drawn after lock > login
but everything looks ugly and “not configured” of course.

Then started to reconfigure all manually: Wallpaper, Panel, Whisker, etc. and at some point the problem re-appeared.

At that point I had the feeling it has to do with the light-locker, so decided to remove it and install/config xfce4-screensaver.
This fixed the problem after lock > login
but the problem happens after suspend > wake > login

Now I am exhausted of this issue and considering to re-install either xfce or entire Manjaro.

Are there any logs that I can look to try to figure out the source of the problem?

Finally, I re-installed Manjaro. Now everything runs fine.

First of all you will have to revert on kernel 5.4, update the system, and clear. cache to address the black screen post-login following auto-lock on kernel 5.10. And then launch an application with UI focus after login for a temporary fix.

The OP has solved the issue by performing a complete reinstall. Anything any of us could add now is probably irrelevant. :wink:

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