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I use a Lenovo G580 i3 x86_64 Laptop. Did a Killdisc one pass clearance of the Hard disc and selected UEFI in the BIOS. Then installed the Mageia-6-x86_64-DVD.iso. from DVD. Did a custom disc partition and all went well, no surprises.

Had some breaks before adding media in MCC, so tried to just lock the screen. No reaction. OK, could be I am missing an update. Added media, but this persisted. OK, so there will be more updates as well. Through all of this, the buttons simply would not lock the screen.

Tested and checked all variations. All the other buttons (links) work.

Is there any way in which I can try to debug this?
Should I file a bug report?

What happens if you run xflock4 as regular user?

Nothing. Copy pasted xflock4 into command line. This is the only result.

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[caldon@localhost ~]$ xflock4
[caldon@localhost ~]$


Could you check if you have the package light-locker installed?
As a user:

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rpm -qa light-locker

The classical iso only installs a minimal version of Xfce, it's possible that the package is missing.

Did this;

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[root@localhost ~]# urpmi light-locker


    http://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/pub/mirrors/mageia/distrib/6/x86_64/media/core/release/light-locker-1.7.0-3.mga6.x86_64.rpm
installing light-locker-1.7.0-3.mga6.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms     
Preparing...                     #############################################
      1/1: light-locker          #############################################
[root@localhost ~]#


OK, rebooting now. Will tell. Ta.

Problem solved. Thank you very much.

For the record, reported as https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21458

Much obliged. In computers space is always at a premium. Electronic triage usually very difficult. I am making a note of it for future installations though. Habit from Windows.

Congratulations to the company Mageia for a very slick Mageia 6 distro. Huge improvements all over the place. And I did not even think of many of them! Very nice surprise indeed.

Grabo wrote:Congratulations to the company Mageia for a very slick Mageia 6 distro.

There's no company behind Mageia, all is done by volunteers. See https://www.mageia.org/contribute/

Unbelievable! I don't know how to let you down kindly.