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SUMMARY

Tried to wake up system from sleep.  Received the error message "Screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible anymore..."

See the attached photo of screen for the full error message. 


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.   Update system to latest via "dnf update" 
2.   Reboot system if reboot is required 
3.   Let system go to sleep or lock screen via CMD-L 
4.   See error message

OBSERVED RESULT

Receive the error message shown in the attached photo of the screen. 

EXPECTED RESULT

Screen should unlock normally.

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 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (27.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This bug appeared immediately after I did a system update via "sudo dnf update"
I've attached a list of the packages altered in the "dnf update" command.

I have also done a "dnf history undo <transaction id>" to undo the update.  This did not help.  My system still cannot restore from screen lock. 

In other words, my system is all "messed" up....  

I wonder if someone 'tried' to fix the problem reported by me in bug #505288, which was closed as a duplicate of bug #500339.  

I marked the severity as "grave" but, honestly, I feel it's "critical."   Not testing software before putting it in the mainline "stable" release is a critical affliction....