curiosity killed the trusty tahr

[Alexander List]

I went to the vet with cat #2, while cat #1 was at home. Being a responsible user, I locked my screen with Ctrl-Alt-L before leaving.

When I returned from the vet, cat #1 was sitting on the keyboard of my Thinkpad x201, and the keyboard buffer of the screensaver's password entry field was full.

Even after removing the cat, the password entry field was unresponsive. It was impossible to delete the garbage characters entered by cat #1, even trying to get the focus to that dialog using the mouse was unsuccessful. My only option was to go to a text console using Ctrl-Alt-F1 and reboot (I know, I could have killed the screensaver, but for ordinary users this is probably too complex.)

I consider that a bug in unity or the screensaver. Curious cats should not kill the trusty tahr or its screensaver.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140403-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-23.45-generic 3.13.8
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Apr 7 17:51:23 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-19 (384 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130318)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-04 (34 days ago)

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Eheh, nice story :)

It's quite hard to reproduce unfortunately, both because I've not a cat here :/ and because also trying to fill the text input, didn't break my machine. We should probably verify that there's never an overflow.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Might be a duplicate https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1463112

[Alexander List (alexlist)]

Even though this is a duplicate, I just found this piece of evidence that's worth preserving.

The cat feeling well on a Thinkpad X201 is due to heat from the CPU :)