Comment 4 for bug 1565178

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote : Re: [Bug 1565178] Re: Screen lock broken after release upgrade

On 23/04/16 00:29, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> I have included a workaround for this on the patch attached to Bug
> 1565178.
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> Bad bug number? It refers to this very bug, which has no patches
> attached.
bad wording, I left the inhibitor in place to workaround this bug. The
other bug was the screensaver not being inhibited.
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> FWIW I managed to forget that locking the screen triggers this bug and locked myself out in the middle of an upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04. Oops. Screensaver inhibition doesn't prevent the user from hitting the Lock Screen key manually. :/
and I really don't think it ever should, ideally we would find a way to
maintain the auth channel, but there is a reason fedora force restarts
on upgrades, its a really hard problem ;(
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