Ubuntu
xorg-server package

  1. Bug #89878
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 89878

Revision history for this message
Richard Green (rtg-aapsc) wrote : Re: [Bug 89878] Re: Screen blanks, locks during install of herd 5

Actually, I wasn't able to get this to repeat. It occurred on an AMD64
with 512MB RAM as I was exploring the K menu (not actually opening any
apps) while ubiquity was doing the initial load. The system didn't crash
- just the screen went blank. I could see the hdd light blinking, so the
file load was still continuing in the background. When I stroke the
touchpad, or press a key, the normal 'unlock screen' dialog opens up. The
problem is that there's no password for the 'ubuntu' user, so I didn't
know how to unlock it again.
   When I started over, and sat on my hands during the load, it worked
fine, so there's the possibility that I somehow fat-fingered some hotkey
to lock the screen.
   Is there such a hotkey defined in the X config of the LiveCD?
   If so, is it recoverable? Since there's no password defined for the
'ubuntu' user that is active in a liveCD session, how would one unlock the
screen in that case?