I am experiencing an interesting problem with my manjaro xfce install.
The problems might be related to a complicated system repair some weeks ago:
Anyway, I think the problem is, that my system seems to not unlock properly under certain conditions.
Example: If I let the system lock itself after a few minutes of inactivity (just lock, not standby!), and then enter my password for unlocking, my desktop opens up, but with certain limitations. These are not being able to start certain applications (f.e. teminal emulator ->i/o error), or some programs not receiving keyboard input (like the browser). If I want to resolve this, I usually press âswitch userâ and reenter my password for the same account. After that, everything is working.
Sometimes I also get two unlock promts after each other, meaning after entering the correct password I am promted again to enter it in a new field.
What I notice, is that I get different looking unlock dialogs: one in the left upper corner, that usually fully unlocks the system and one in the center of the screen, that leads to the âpartial unlockâ described above.
So I guess, that during the mentioned system repair I might have installed a package, that is conflicting with my regular unlock process.
I just donât know what to look for
Thanks for any pointers or hints, how I can figure out, what is causing this inconvenience.
Thank you for linking the old topic - it confirms what I reached at while reading this.
The only situation which can be described as a âpartial unlockâ is when using auto-login for a specific username.
From your description this seems not to be the case, but rather a defective unlock - but it is certainly unclear - and my thoughts here is what it is - thoughts, guessing, ideas - call it anything but a fact.
Such error is usually file-system errors caused by a defective storage medium.
Said in laymanâs terms - you have a disk with bad sectors - and with SSD it translate to bad memory cell readings.
The fact that it manifest the way that it does, could point to power fluctuations inside the system, some times the power is good and the read is good - at other points the power is low, resulting in bad reads.
I have no idea why the system behaves like this, but it does point somewhat in the direction of a bad SSD disk.
As for immediate action - I recommend
backup your important data to external device ASAP
Thanks again for the quick reply!
I do regular backups of everything important, so I am not worried about data loss at this point. Like with the other thread, this is more of a learning journey, bear with my stupid questions and my stubborness is getting to the core of things
While I canât say that my SSD is ok, and I agree that with just an I/O error I would think of that as well, I feel like there must be something else.
Why? Well, the consistency of the problem (in the described way it is fully reproducible and fixable for me), makes me doubt a bad disk. From other experiences, that would lead to more ârandomâ errors.
And also the two different types of login screen must have a reason besides having a corrupted disc or not.
The working login in the upper left corner is going along with my light dm configutation. I canât figure out though, where the other login prompt is coming from (package and/or settings). I looked for the typical display-managers that I have heard of, but so far I only found light dm in the package listâŚ
Thanks, that seems to be the correct idea.
light-locker seems to have various issues which could be connected with this situation.
After disabling the lock screen in screen saver preferences, I am presented with the correct login prompt!
That doesnât really explain to me, what goes wrong there though
Also I canât really figure out, what is causing the lock now. Because the screen still gets locked automaticallyâŚ
ok, removed light-locker and everything works (still) as expected
But the other question remains: can you point me to the setting, that locks the screen, even though lock screen is disabled?
No, I cannot because I do not know. I just remember that I have seen topic related to light-locker on Xfce, beyond that, I have no more knowledge than that.
If everything works as expected, it should be xfce4-screensaver and its settings (which will be interlinked in other dialogs like power. Can you manually lock now from menu? If no there is one more little thing to change.
@Denis_Pom
On Power Managers Display tab I only set a brightness reduction. On the system tab I set the system to suspend after a certain time, but the screen lock happens much earlier. @jrichard326
That setting is turned off after @linux-aarhus hint, that it could be the cause of my original problem. @Teo
No, I canât lock from the whiskers menu. But the screen does lock itself after about 1 minute of idle time (I donât know through which setting).
Before removing light-locker, the system would suspend properly after a timeout of 10 minutes, but that gives an error/a warning now, that says âNone of the screen lock tools ran successfully. the screen will not be locked. Do you still want to continue to suspend the system? Y/Nâ
In the xfce settings-editor I changed the lock command from light-locker to âdm-tool lockâ
The irritating screen lock after one minute comes from the setting âlock screen with screensaverâ. That is unexpected for me, because the whole page is greyed out after disabling âlock screenâ. So to turn it off, I had to reenable âlock screenâ first, then disable the mentioned setting, and then disable âlock screenâ again. Somehow a design-flaw in the GUI I would say.
