Every time the screen lock kicks in, and I return to my debian gnome desktop, I press Enter, wait for 20 seconds, press Enter again, eventually the monitor wakes up and I enter the password.
The desktop displays, but my external HDDs have been put to sleep, and they do not wake up. One of them is zfs. The zfs mounts list shows, but any attempt to view/ls a zfs mount, just hangs permanently until a reboot. The other drive is an ext4 filesystem, and it has been completely un-mounted and the HDD spun down, and it does not spin up again - until a reboot. This seems rather drastic, and unexpected. Surely others have forgotten to dismount external drives, or taken too long to return to the computer and had the screen lock kick in, and the external drives "permanently" shut down? Any ideas on how to stop this, without disabling the Gnome screen lock? (I do want the screen to lock if I forget to lock it, or if I manually lock it, if I'm away from my pc for a while)
