Blanked screen never returns

[NoOp]

On 11/01/2016 09:18 AM, NoOp wrote:
> On 11/1/2016 7:47 AM, MR wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com
>> <mailto:lproven at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>     On 1 November 2016 at 01:36, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:mrzenwiz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     > Since I upgraded my home desktop to Xubuntu 16.04, and installed 16.40
>>     > on my laptop,
>> 
>>     You mean 16.04 for both, yes?
>> 
>> Yes.  Fat fingers. 
>> 
>> 
>>     > I have noticed that when the screen is blanked (or
>>     > powered down), it never comes back.  Rebooting resolves this (the
>>     > windows solution - ugh).
>> 
>>     What happens if you switch to a text console and back?
>> 
>>     Ctrl+Alt+F1, then Alt-F7.
>> 
>> I tried that last night, but all I got was some system level output
>> (which I did not record), as if the system were restarting, but it never
>> finished and the screen went blank again.
>> 
>> (Thanks, too, to Joel.)
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> I experienced this as well just the other day when I locked the screen
> from the keyboard. I could not get to a terminal, but it left a terminal
> window open on the screen. I'll see if I can reproduce later today.

No luck today. I'll post back when I can replicate.