No desktop after unlocking screensaver

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Hello, I have something breaking the desktop and I am not sure what.
The default screen lock timeout engages normally and when I come back, I unlock the screen as normal. After about 5-6 times of this, the desktop does not come back when I unlock the screen. Only the cursor with an all black screen on both monitors and nothing more. My only recourse is to ssh in from a different machine and reboot.

Any thoughts on what I can do? Or how to proceed.

Also, this has been this way since the install and I left it thinking an update would probably resolve this but… no luck there.

Redburn

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When the screen “doesn’t come back”, might try switching to the main CLI using (Console 1):
Ctrl-Alt-F1.
You can do a couple of things at this point.

At the CLI, log in as the root user:

Read thru the systemd log file for clues.

Or, at the CLI as root switch to Runlevel 3. Then switch to the graphical environment.