Can't unlock computer. Ever

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I can’t unlock my computer. Ever. If I lock it, it becomes completely unresponsive. I don’t know if the machine is simply COMPLETELY ignoring my keyboard and mouse or if it has actually frozen. In general, if I hit the power button, wait for the computer to “sleep,” and then hit the power button again to wake it, it will resume functioning–but, of course, anything the computer was doing that required, say, network connectivity will be completely borked at that point.

I swear this used to work. It’s a problem only on the very latest version of gnome.

The same problem happens if I don’t interact quickly enough on boot: the computer goes to "forever sleep” and refuses to respond to anything I do with the mouse or keyboard.

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Still happens. :slight_smile:

Oh, there’s a minimum body length…

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Suspend on Linux is very dependant on the hardware you own. This is probably not GNOME’s fault, but something lower in the stack is failing. Maybe you also experienced regression in the kernel? You may have better luck getting answer on the forum on your distro.

I also sometimes have this problem, but yeah, it’s kinda hard to troubleshoot.

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Do you have more information about this? It could be hardware-related; or software-related.

I have one troublemaking laptop, lenovo that sometimes causes problems.

Try to narrow this problem down as much as possible. Perhaps it happens only with some

GNOME version but not with others. Freezes should be rare, so there should be a chance

to find out why it happens. Perhaps also run some terminal with kernel dmesg output or so

concurrently.

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As I mentioned in the original post, it was only with the latest one. Which one was “latest” at the time, I don’t know; it was back in September.

If it helps anyone, I have since realized that using Ctrl+Alt+F3 and then Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a second session and then back will jolt the thing back to life. So… I dunno, if you’re having the same problem, try my crappy workaround. :expressionless:

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