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Update took out screen lock

About a 1 1/2 month ago an update using "sudo pacman -Syu" my screen saver stopped working. This had happened before and would usually get fixed in subsequent updates. This time it hasn't done so.
I run the Cinnamon desktop on the Zen kernel, currently:
Linux BobsWorkstation 6.12.9-zen1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:29:00 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
While trying to find the issue, I found that the lock function in the Cinnamon menu doesn't work either. Where can I investigate to resolve this issue? Is there a configuration file I should look at?
Thank you to all that can help and or direct me.

Re: Update took out screen lock

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I don't know what your login manager is; figure out how to lock the screen through a terminal.
With elogind, the command is
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loginctl lock-session
.

You can then try running that and see what message you get when/if it fails to lock.

Other places to look are dmesg and whatever log system you're using.