[opensuse-kde] KDE Desktop Session Locked, unable to unlock: no password entry fields!
I am locked out of my desktop session and the screen locker will not diaplay the user/password entry fields to I can unlock it. After applying the latest updates on my otherwise stock openSUSE-13.1 system via YOU, prior to rebooting the system (by clicking the YaST2 popup which states "These updates require a system reboot to function properly. ... Reboot the system as soon as possible."), I clicked the icon to lock the screen since I had to leave for a while and wanted to wait until I returned to perfrom the systme reboot. The problem is that the screen locker does not display the login dialog at all, but only shows the background image. I've tried every sensible mouse click and keyboard input I could think of with no response. I also tried logging in to a cmdline session and sending various signals and cmdline incantations to the kscreenlocker_greet process (which appears to be the culprit). The only result I was able to achieve was that it would die then quickly respawn in the exact same situation (!?!). What to do? How can I now get back in to my desktop session so I can complete the cleanup of the remaining running interactive processes and preform a graceful reboot of my system? Is there any to kill the screen locker and get back to a normal desktop session? Any ideas (short of a shutdown from another login to the system). I have verified the the Xorg server and related GUI processes for the apps I'd left running (GVim, Konsoles, etc.) are indeed still running BTW, prior to the updates, everything had been working just fine, including the KDE screen locker. Thanks, --Phil -- Philip Amadeo Saeli psaeli@zorodyne.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
* Philip Amadeo Saeli
I am locked out of my desktop session and the screen locker will not diaplay the user/password entry fields to I can unlock it. ...
Never mind. While attempting to defeat the KDE screen locker (kscreenlocker_greet) and get back in to my desktop session so I could save some data and gracefully close some apps, I managed to somehow kill the entire KDE session [sigh ....]. Nothing to save now. I know what to do from here. --Phil -- Philip Amadeo Saeli psaeli@zorodyne.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
Hi (sorry for pm.) Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2014, 19:48:53 schrieb Philip Amadeo Saeli:
I am locked out of my desktop session and the screen locker will not diaplay the user/password entry fields to I can unlock it.
What to do? How can I now get back in to my desktop session so I can complete the cleanup of the remaining running interactive processes and preform a graceful reboot of my system? Is there any to kill the screen locker and get back to a normal desktop session? Any ideas (short of a shutdown from another login to the system).
the command: dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.SetActive boolean:false should theoretically unlock the screen ( http://thebigbyte.blogspot.de/2010/05/how-to-lock-unlock-kde4-screensaver.ht... ), but I couldn't make it work from a console here right now, maybe you have more luck. qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout 0 2 1 should shutdown KDE and reboot the machine, and qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout 0 2 2 should shutdown KDE and halt the machine. Untested here, if it would work from an console. Both commands work from a terminal within the KDE session, though.
Thanks,
--Phil Harald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
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Philip Amadeo Saeli