GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 723278
Unable to summon "unlock" dialog after "lock screen && monitor off"
Last modified: 2014-02-01 16:02:38 UTC
I'm no longer able to bring up the "unlock" dialog after the screen is locked and monitor turned off. Steps to produce the problem: 1. In Gnome, press <Super>l or click the menu entry to lock screen. 2. Do nothing until the screen turns blank (very soon). 3. Hit <Space> or any key on keyboard, or move the mouse. This should but does not summon the "unlock" dialog / login-screen (or at least the "shield" / lock-screen), and the screen remains blank. Also, <Ctrl><Alt><F2> is able to switch to the 2nd VT. If in step 2, instead of doing nothing, I move the mouse sooner than the screen turns blank, then I can log in as usual. There is one error message in the journal that seems to reappear every time this problem happens: gnome-session: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Ignored exception from dbus method: Gio.IOErrorEnum: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.SessionManager.GeneralError: Unable to uninhibit: Invalid cookie (Should I have filed this under gnome-session then? This is hard..) --- gnome-shell 3.10.3 gnome-session 3.10.1 gdm 3.10.0.1 Also I do not use gnome-screensaver.
Turns out to be a video driver issue. The problem is resolved after upgrading xf86-video-intel from 2.99.907 to 2.99.908.