[Tfug] Weird Linux Mint 14 issue - Unable to unlock screen

TR trexx at pobox.com
Fri Jan 25 13:39:12 MST 2013


Can you get to a terminal window? Ctrl-F1 or ssh in from an other system?
how do you restart X?

TR



On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com>wrote:

> Here's a weird one...Built a new Linux Mint box.  Install worked with no
> issue (though had to wrap my head around adding an EFI partition to boot
> into the box).  When I leave the machine for a bit and come back, I cannot
> get past the screen lock.  No login window pops up - my only resolution is
> to restart X (and lose everything I had open :-/ ).
>
> Anybody have this issue before?
>
> TIA,
>
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