https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475605

--- Comment #37 from Victor Ryzhykh <victorr2...@yandex.ru> ---
(In reply to holyzolly from comment #35)
> I too have been affected by a probably different bug (no signal too monitor).
> As a result, I changed from auto hybrid-sleep to auto hibernate. Dunno maybe
> btrfs issue, but I'm using a swap partition.
> So below is now after hibernate but used to be after sleep mode too:
> 
> Ok ok so I too have possibly been affected by this bug as well.
> 0. I however see the log screen where I use a slideshow of pictures as
> background. These pictures are seen but in the middle password field or my
> username don't show. Cursor however is active and in the middle where the pw
> field is supposed to show, the arrow of the cursor changed to a pipe so I
> know where to activate the not-shown pw field. So I left click there, type
> my pw and hit enter. That way I know I have unlocked the session which
> however is still visually covered with the lock screen. In the middle the
> cursor arrow does not change to pipe now.
> My workaround then is:
> 1./0b. Wait a few minutes, up to 6-7.
> or which I mostly after 0.
> 2. Change into TTY3 and back. If I get the black screen with only cursor
> like the OP:
> 2b. Change into TTY3 and log into it and look at htop, hit Q to quit it,
> look at nvtop (not installed by default) and hit Q and then I switch back to
> graphical interface from TTY3 (CTRL+ALT+F2). In either of the monitors shown
> in TTY you see the lockscreen process or plasmashell above 80%. For me this
> eventually changes after waiting a while. If I still get the black screen
> with only cursor like the OP.
> 2c. Repeat 2b
> 
> Might be the switching to TTY and back triggers the graphics to be restarted
> faster.
> At least I get my session back and the info message in systray: Your
> graphics had to be restarted due to a graphical issue (or a wording the
> like). And here everything works again as expected, full GUI. (Apart from
> some screen tearing when switching between Activities or in FF Yt videos,
> which is why I usually log out and back in in these restored/unlocked
> sessions).
> 
> Everyone is welcome to translate my complicatedly described  workaround into
> fewer, better organized sentences :)

In general, sometimes simply turning off and turning on the monitor using the
monitor's power button helps.

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