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Ubuntu 14.04. Brightness & Lock settings are to turn off screen after 10 minutes and lock screen after 30 minutes. 50% of the time, when I wake my computer from suspend, the login field to enter my password is missing. Quite annoying. I have to CTRL + ALT + 3 to get to another.... shell? (still new-ish to Linux), log in and run:

sudo service lightdm restart

Where can I look to see what is going wrong. Is there a lightdm log of some kind?

Thanks!

00fruX
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This can be worked around without losing your session by:

  1. Switch to a tty (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1)
  2. Log in
  3. Run: sudo loginctl unlock-sessions
  4. Switch back to the Desktop: Ctrl+Alt+F7 (or F8).

From the bug report fori this issue and this answer to a similar question

Gabriel Grant
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I see in some cases it could be linked to the use of Nvidia drivers. See potential solution at https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2395562&highlight=suspend+resume+problems

Gert Kruger
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The lightdm log can be viewed by running sudo less /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log

The issue you're describing is a known bug. A few potential workarounds are shown in the comments on that ticket. One workaround is to drop into a terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+F1, logging in, and then running unity --replace. Other variations are shown in the bug comments.

E-man
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  • Erm, your answer is correct, but sudo less /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log would have been more informative to a user that is asking where the lightdm log is... ;-) (please [edit] and change and flesh it out a bit. – Fabby Jan 26 '15 at 21:41