Bug 506478

Summary:	Unable to unlock machine after screen turns off automatically
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Alexander Koskovich <akoskovich>
Component:	Screen locking	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.4.1
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Alexander Koskovich 2025-07-02 10:16:27 UTC

SUMMARY

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set "Turn off screen" to "5 minutes".
2. Wait 5 minutes.

OBSERVED RESULT
The screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible anymore. In order to unlock it, switch to a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1), log in to your account and execute the command:

loginctl unlock-session 2

Then log out of the virtual session by pressing Ctrl+D, and switch back to the running session (Ctrl+Alt+F2).
Should you have forgotten the instructions, you can get back to this screen by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2.

EXPECTED RESULT
Screen locker appears, able to re-unlock via GUI.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.4 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2025-07-02 11:06:03 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 506316 ***