I’m running opensuse13.1-x86-64 on Intel-based Dell laptop (E7440, core-i5-4300u), and am using KDE.
If I let the laptop idle eventually it sleeps; when I tap the power button it wakes up near instantly and I see the SuSE background. But I don’t get a password/unlock greeting.
ALT-TAB does nothing. I switch back to character console and login as root, and kill the process /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kscreenlocker_greet and flip back to the graphical window and I then see the password box once more; I can then unlock and everything is good once again.
If I shut the lid, the laptop sleeps and resumes perfectly when I open the lid and I get asked to enter the password.
Overall then this is not a disaster because I don’t lose my logged-in session, but it is quite annoying.
I tried googling for kscreenlocker_greet and variants but couldn’t find a specific answer. Sorry if this has already been covered on this forum.
Two threads about that have been opened recently, but unfortunately the posters didn’t reply anymore for some time now.
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/495223-After-suspend-sleep-can-t-login
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/495345-13-1-KDE-Missing-login-box-after-resuming-from-Standby
As I would really be interested in what could cause this (and I cannot reproduce it myself), could you please post the file ~/.kde4/share/config/kscreensaverrc?
And please try to create a new user (in YaST->Security and Users->User Management f.e.), login as that, and check whether that user has the problem as well or not.
PS: Never mind.
Thanks to your detailed description, I was able to reproduce now.
This apparently only happens if you activate automatic suspend in KDE’s power management settings.
I will add that to the upstream bug report.
And see here for some workarounds:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/495223-After-suspend-sleep-can-t-login?p=2625001#post2625008
Disabling “Lock screen on resume” in Configure Desktop (systemsettings)->Power Management->Advanced or disabling the screen locker/screen saver in Configure Desktop (systemsettings)->Display and Monitor->Screenlocker should prevent that problem as well.
I don’t have that file
$ cat ~/.kde4/share/config/screen
cat: /home/paulm/.kde4/share/config/screen: No such file or directory
I haven’t really touched screen saver, it’s set to
[li] start after (4 minutes)[/li][ ] require password after (60 seconds)
(*) simple locker
( ) desktop widgets
( ) screen saver
I changed the settings from the default, then back, then applied, and now the file exists:
$ cat ~/.kde4/share/config/*screen*
[ScreenSaver]
LegacySaverEnabled=false
PlasmaEnabled=false
aha, if I kill
/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kscreenlocker_greet
it restarts with
[FONT=arial]/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kscreenlocker_greet --immediatelock
[/FONT]
I’ll add this to the kde bug tracker