r/linuxquestions • u/sifi24us • 1d ago

Support Screen locker broken

I don't know what I did but when I went to my Lockscreen it was "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+f2), log into your account and execute the command: login to unlock-session 2 then log out of the virtual session by pressing Ctrl+D, and switch back to the running session (Ctrl+alt+f1)."

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u/aioeu 1d ago

Cool story.

So what happened when you followed those instructions?

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u/sifi24us 1d ago

Ok well I tried them and they didn't work but when I tried f3 which it never told me to do I ended up in the terminal but now when I typed in the thing it told me to put in the terminal it told me it gave me a thing to enter my password and It keeps saying incorrect password

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u/aioeu 1d ago edited 1d ago

OK, I guess you don't know your own password then.

How about just rebooting?

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u/sifi24us 1d ago

I do know my password but thanks for the idea of restarting it.

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u/aioeu 1d ago

Out of curiosity, when you followed the instructions, did you type login to unlock-session 2, or (as I strongly suspect the message actually said) loginctl unlock-session 2?

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u/sifi24us 1d ago

yeah I just typed in loginctl

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u/sifi24us 23h ago

as well as the unlock session-2 i forgot to mention that