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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

Reply #1 –
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.

Re: Update took out screen lock

Reply #2 –
Thank you. That command didn't return anything.  My biggest problem is that I've been running such stable distributions for so long, I've lost much of my troubleshooting knowledge.
dmesg returns mostly sata events.
I'm trying to find a good log file viewer that dosen't require systemd.  I have openrc as my init system.