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I have a laptop that runs Debian Jessie with only the Linux console - no X server installed.

A recent dist-upgrade replaced sysvinit with systemd.

Now I'm trying to get systemd to lock the console when the computer sleeps (this was previously handled by a script in /etc/pm/sleep.d.)

I've tried this:

/etc/systemd/system/screenlock.service:

[Unit]
Description=Lock X session using slock
Before=sleep.target

[Service]
User=<username>
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vlock -ans

[Install]
WantedBy=sleep.target

And then:

systemctl enable screenlock.service

A similar solution works for me on another computer with X but this isn't working in the console.

How can that be?

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  • You don't need that. Look at the Systemd Sleep.service – eyoung100 Oct 1 '14 at 18:28
  • The point is that I want my machine locked it suspends or hibernates ... – MajorBriggs Oct 1 '14 at 18:33
  • apt-cache search vlock – eyoung100 Oct 1 '14 at 18:41
  • Yep, vlock is a console screen locking program - I want systemd to lock my consoæle with it on hibernate and suspend ... – MajorBriggs Oct 1 '14 at 18:59
  • The reason its not Working is because the real terminal uses the ACPI sleep function in your BIOS, where as the one working uses the Timer set in your DE. I dunno of any service that interfaces with ACPI so we will wait... – eyoung100 Oct 1 '14 at 19:06
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Scripts in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/ will be executed pre and post suspension|hibernation when using systemctl suspend, so you can add a script to start vlock from there. Lots of detail here in the ArchLinux Systemd Wiki page.

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I got it working by using physlock instead of vlock with the /etc/systemd/system/screenlock.service file like this:

[Unit]
Description=Lock X session using slock
Before=sleep.target

[Service]
User=<username>
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/physlock -d

[Install]
WantedBy=sleep.target
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