Ubuntu 14.10 lockscreen requires password for passwordless accounts

Bug #1390270 reported by Neil Hearn
14
This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Rishabh Ksheerasagar

Bug Description

Orignally running Ubuntu 14.04 and upgraded to 14.10.
After Upgrade each time one of the "passwordless accounts" is logged in - once the lock screen for said account is displayed, either though manual lock or from timeout, it requires a password. Pressing enter (I.E. input no password) results in "Incorrect Password" being displayed.

There appears to be no way back into this account.

Potential Package: gnome-screensaver
gnome-screensaver:
  Installed: 3.6.1-0ubuntu14
  Candidate: 3.6.1-0ubuntu14
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.1-0ubuntu14 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

lsbrelease output: Ubuntu 14.10 / 14.10

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:14.10.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Nov 7 00:37:32 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-21 (16 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140722.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: dist-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (12 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Neil Hearn (nhearn) wrote :
no longer affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Neil Hearn (nhearn) wrote :

Attached output of:
ubuntu-bug gnome-screensaver --save=gnome-screensaver-bug

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Rishabh Ksheerasagar (rishi-ksheerasagar)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
status: Fix Committed → Confirmed
sanket (sanketjn210)
Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
sanket (sanketjn210)
Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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