On 09/08/2017 01:39 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > You might also be able to use loginctl to list sessions, then something > like "loginctl unlock-session 42" to unlock your session. no, that did not work after I got locked in for the 3rd time. I was able to lock and unlock manually, but the problem comes when it gets locked after some idle time.
see logs attched
pravi@nishumbha:~$ loginctl list-sessions SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY 12 1001 srud seat0 /dev/tty2 2554 1000 pravi c1 117 Debian-gdm seat0 /dev/tty1 3 sessions listed. pravi@nishumbha:~$ loginctl unlock-session 2554 pravi@nishumbha:~$ sudo loginctl unlock-session 2554 pravi@nishumbha:~$ loginctl session-status 2554 2554 - pravi (1000) Since: Fri 2017-09-08 22:22:50 IST; 4min 30s ago Leader: 13493 (sshd) Remote: 192.168.2.100 Service: sshd; type tty; class user State: active Unit: session-2554.scope ├─13493 sshd: pravi [priv] ├─13512 sshd: pravi@pts/4 ├─13513 -bash ├─13803 loginctl session-status 2554 └─13804 pager
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