Updates on Manjaro Lomiri Alpha 1 can lock you out of your phone if you are not vigilant to apply a workaround
Steps to repro:
Install Manjaro Lomiri Alpha 1 Open Terminal sudo pacman -Syu – It first replaces some Manjaro and Arch keyrings
It then offers a full system upgrade and asks some questions. Press ENTER (Y) for all of them:
Replace eg25 with community/pinephone-modem-scripts? [Y/n]
Replace geoclue2 with extra/geoclue? [Y/n]"
Replace pinephone-modem-audio with community/pinephone-modem-scripts? [Y/n]
Replace pygobject-devel with extra/python-gobject? [Y/n]
Then it spits out this output: looking for conflicting packages… warning: removing ‘kwayland’ from target list because it conflicts with ‘kwayland-git’ :: rtl8723bt-firmward-megi and rtl8723bt-firmware are in conflict. Remove rtl8723bt-firmware? [y/N]
Selecting the default here will immediately terminate the upgrade, and the password 123456 still works. Redo and this time select ‘y’ :: kwayland-git and kwayland are in conflict. Remove kwayland? [y/N] Selecting N terminates the upgrade and the password still works. We also see these messages “error: unresolvable package conflicts detected” “error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: kwayland-git and kwayland are in conflict”
Redo “sudo pacman -Syu” and this time select 'Y/y" for everything
Leave the phone unattended and let the screen lock due to inactivity. Issue reproduced. Device power off/on does not help.
Workaround:
Keep tapping the screen to prevent it from timing out. At the end of the system upgrade, key in $ passwd Enter current password: 123456 New password: Repeat: $ exit
Power off the phone and then power it on. Now able to login with the new password that was set.