Lock screen - freezes my laptop  [Solved]

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wellsey
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Lock screen - freezes my laptop

#1 Post by wellsey »

I have a recent mx23.4 xfce install and notice that lock screen option - clicked from whiskermenu widget brings up the animated screensaver which runs happily until I mouse click or hit the keyboard when the laptop freezes and is unresponsive to any thing inc alt+sysreq reisub . I have to resort to the power button

I have tried toggling between the "use intel driver rather than modesetting ..." thing in case its a graphics driver issue but on either setting the pc freezes :confused:

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Snapshot created on: 20241029_1714
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-26-amd64 [6.1.112-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-26-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.4_x64 Libretto September 15  2024 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E4310 v: 0001 serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
    type: 9 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0D8H24 v: A00 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A06 date: 02/15/2011
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 22.1 Wh (82.5%) condition: 26.8/48.8 Wh (55.0%) volts: 11.9 min: 11.1
    model: SMP DELL 9H41496 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: charging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5 M 560 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Westmere gen: core 1 level: v2
    built: 2010-11 process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x25 (37) stepping: 5 microcode: 0x7
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache: L1: 128 KiB
    desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1370 high: 1535 min/max: 1199/2667 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1472 2: 1220 3: 1254 4: 1535 bogomips: 21281
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: conditional; RSB
    filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-5.75 process: Intel 45nm built: 2010 ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2,
    HDMI-A-2, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0046 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Primax Dell Laptop Integrated Webcam 2Mpix type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.4:5
    chip-ID: 0461:4db1 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: intel
    dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.00x11.26") s-diag: 583mm (22.95")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI1 model: Samsung T24D390 built: 2013 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
    dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2 size: 521x293mm (20.51x11.54") diag: 598mm (23.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 mapped: eDP1 pos: primary model: LG Display 0x024d built: 2010 res: 1913x1076
    hz: 60 dpi: 165 gamma: 1.2 size: 294x166mm (11.57x6.54") diag: 338mm (13.3") ratio: 16:9
    modes: 1366x768
  API: OpenGL v: 2.1 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (ILK) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 5 driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b57 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-26-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 6040
    bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:10ea class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:422c class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Dell DW375 Bluetooth Module type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-1.7:3
    chip-ID: 413c:8187 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.0 lmp-v: 3.0
    sub-v: 4203 hci-v: 3.0 rev: 205
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:8 sco-mtu: 64:1 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
    link-mode: peripheral accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio,
    telephony
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 6020
    bus-ID: 00:1f.2 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 42.7 GiB (19.1%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDA240G size: 223.57 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 70RL scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 176.7 GiB size: 172.86 GiB (97.83%) used: 42.7 GiB (24.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.79 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda1
    maj-min: 8:1
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3096
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2232 libs: 1130 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://mxlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info:
  Processes: 237 Uptime: 11m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.56 GiB used: 2.44 GiB (32.2%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)
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Re: Lock screen - freezes my laptop  [Solved]

#2 Post by CharlesV »

The default xfce4 screensaver has issues. Uninstall it, and if you want a screen saver then install xscreensaver ( MX Package Installer )
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Re: Lock screen - freezes my laptop

#3 Post by wellsey »

did this

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sudo apt remove xfce4-screensaver
now nothing happens when I lock screen and I cant seem to find the GUI where I actually chose the screensaver to display on lock ( I want to disable it ). It doesn't seem to be in Sessions & Startup or Power management
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Re: Lock screen - freezes my laptop

#4 Post by Kermit the Frog »

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sudo apt install light-locker -y
Now you'll have a locker (that was ootb with MX-21 and 18 and before) and you can disable it (auto-locking before suspend) if you like from "Power Manager" (you can still lock the screen with it manually whenever you like).
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Re: Lock screen - freezes my laptop

#5 Post by CharlesV »

Or install xscreensaver for screen savers. I run in on my MX23's and it works perfectly for me.
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Re: Lock screen - freezes my laptop

#6 Post by wellsey »

Thanks - I used light-locker as the xscreensaver brought up an ugly login prompt , not the MX themed one that appears when you select log out
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