Quick screen lock is broken: "The screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible..."

[First_Law_of_Unix]

I press: "CTRL + ALT + L"

Then got this:


So I enter to a terminal session by entering on keyboard:
"CTRL + ALT + F2"

Did the following and nothing works:


How to unlock or remove the lock screen from terminal?

Here the system details:

OS: FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p5 amd64
Uptime: 18 mins
Packages: 1691 (pkg)
Shell: sh
Resolution: 3840x2160
DE: Plasma 5.24.7
WM: KWin
Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: AMD FX-8350 (8) @ 3.991GHz
GPU: Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
Memory: 10856MiB / 32684MiB


Thanks.

 

[zirias@]

Sesseion9?

 

[First_Law_of_Unix]

I tried all possible varibles:

Session0-9
nothing works.

That screen shot was just an example for me to take a photo to show to this thread, I did however used the correct spelling when I used it before I took the photo.

 

[zirias@]

Assuming your X session doesn't run as root, I see another error here: You can only unlock sessions of your own user, so log in as the same user running the X session.

 

[YYY__]

It's a bug in 5.24:

The screen locker is broken • KDE Community Forums

hi guys after an update i get this message code select allthe screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible anymore in order to unlock switch to a virtual

forum.kde.org

 

[blackhole]

Just seen this one today - just happened out of the blue, then again not long after running the suggested consolekit command. Final nudge I need to encourage me to jump ship from the broken KDE plasma mess. Been running it on FreeBSD since 2021 and constantly having to fix things, delete cache, delete all dotfiles, fighting with bugs with sddm, the issue with the baloo_file_extractor slowing the system to a crawl and it goes on...

 

[YYY__]

Reported errors can be linuxisms. It's an excellent error-ridden desktop environment like an oxymoron.

 

[grahamperrin]

… broken KDE plasma mess … running it on FreeBSD since 2021 and constantly having to fix things, delete cache, delete all dotfiles, fighting with bugs with sddm, …

I have used KDE Plasma and SDDM on FreeBSD, nearly always FreeBSD-CURRENT, since around 2015.

Plasma and SDDM are not a broken mess.

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It's a bug in 5.24:

<https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=174343#p453568>

Through a Wayback Machine copy of that March 2022 post:

433807 – crashes after clicking on the button in the notification

bugs.kde.org

• for Discover
• not related to screen locking

451315 – Recent updates to libwayland-server0 et al break i386 support.

bugs.kde.org

• for Wayland on i386
• opening poster First_Law_of_Unix uses AMD64, not i386

451326 – Long waiting time for the application to start

bugs.kde.org

• fixed
• not related to screen locking.

All open kscreenlocker reports:

• <https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bu...r&product=kscreenlocker&query_format=advanced>

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Two open reports for security/plasma5-kscreenlocker on FreeBSD:

• <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=Individual+Port(s)&list_id=653167&order=Bug+Number&product=Ports+&+Packages&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&short_desc=security/plasma5-kscreenlocker&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr>

I recently closed a report that affects locking, there'll be documentation in due course.

Bugs in 5.2.4: updates to 5.24.4​

KDE: Update KDE Plasma Desktop to 5.24.1 -- February Bugfix Release · freebsd/freebsd-ports@f142fac

Tuesday, 15 February 2022. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.24.1. Plasma 5.24 was released in February 2022 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete...

github.com

KDE: Update KDE Plasma Desktop to 5.24.2 -- February Bugfix Release #2 · freebsd/freebsd-ports@9062046

Tuesday, 22 February 2022. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.24.2. Plasma 5.24 was released in February 2022 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete...

github.com

KDE: Update KDE Plasma Desktop to 5.24.3 · freebsd/freebsd-ports@981e459

Tuesday, 8 March 2022. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.24.3. Plasma 5.24 was released in February 2022 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the...

github.com

KDE: Update KDE Plasma Desktop to 5.24.3 (Bugfix release) · freebsd/freebsd-ports@cda31fc

Tuesday, 29 March 2022. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.24.4. Plasma 5.24 was released in February 2022 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete th...

github.com

Included:

• SDDM/lockscreen: Fix weird behaviour.

For anyone who's curious, the weirdness there did not relate to the opening post here. The commit referred to:

2058468 – The Sleep, Restart, Shut down, and Other options were missing from sddm on Wayland in Fedora 36

bugzilla.redhat.com

 

[grahamperrin]

I tried all possible varibles:

Session0-9
nothing works.

That screen shot was just an example for me to take a photo to show to this thread, I did however used the correct spelling when I used it before I took the photo.

That's extraordinary.

Last time I encountered a breakage, months ago, I did exactly as instructed, as root:

this:

Then, the customary switch away:

• from the virtual terminal
• to the desktop environment.

Documentation​

The on-screen hint, above, lacks this hint:

• Alt+F9

First_Law_of_Unix please, can you remember, in March 2023, were you aware of the need to use Alt+F9 (or Control+Alt+F9)?

Without this, it's normal to remain at the command prompt.

Technical​

Control+Alt+F2 takes to you the tty numbered 1, then Alt+F9 takes you (back) to the tty numbered 8.

ttyv8 is the norm for a desktop environment on FreeBSD.

cat /etc/ttys

tty(1)

ttys(5)

HTH (hope that helps).