Screen lock doesn't work after upgrade to 21.10

[dbzix]

Hello.
I upgraded 21.04 to 21.10 and screen lock doesn’t work since then. Not using key combination (tried to change - no result); not via graphical menu; not after suspend. It just doesn’t work.
How can I fix this? This is a high security risk to me.
Thank you for your help!

$ ps aux | grep -i screensaver | grep -v grep
dbz        16926  0.0  0.0 238988  5200 ?        Sl   17:46   0:00 /usr/libexec/gsd-screensaver-proxy
dbz        17054  0.0  0.3 2661772 26904 ?       Sl   17:46   0:00 /usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.ScreenSaver

[fossfreedom]

You have both GNOME Shell and Budgie installed - I’m guessing you are running GDM3?

Lockscreen not working after update to 21.10

Yesterday I updated 21.04 to 21.10 and was looking at the terminal in the meanwhile when I noticed the installer had disabled the lockscreen. I’ve been unable to use it ever since. So far the following yielded no results: WIN + L; Setting up the blank time to 1 min and automatic lock screen delay to “Screen turns off” (the screen never turns off); Re-configuring the display manager and setting it to lightdm; Uninstalling gdm3. The disable-lock-screen dconf setting in org.gnome.desktop.lockdow…

From the above some ideas. But in essence - GNOME made changes in 21.10 that breaks budgie. Upstream Solus also have noted this and their recommendation is either / or - not both should be installed. Don’t use GDM3 either if you use budgie.

[dbzix]

GDM3 has been disabled in systemd but I’ve uninstalled it anyway.
Found temporary solution in post you proposed. Thank you so much!