Locked screen won't unlock

[Chris Bozic]

Running an up-to-date Feisty system. Any time I lock the screen, by screen saver or closing the lid on my laptop, can type my password in the dialog box to unlock the screen but then it hangs until it eventually says "Time has expired". From that point on I am locked out of my desktop until I reboot.

[Ryan Rawdon (flieslikeabrick)]

I can confirm this on my two laptops and a desktop. Trying unlock the screensaver results in it hanging with "Checking..." for quite some time. Ultimately I need to reboot the machine or use another virtual terminal to killall gnome-screensaver and gnome-screensaver-dialog

This started during one of the batches of updates in the past 24 hours.

[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

"me too"

Ryan: rather than rebooting you can press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X - and return to login.

[giorgiga (giorgiga)]

"me too", too

It happens in my Compaq Evo N800v

[Jyrki Pulliainen (jyrki-pulliainen)]

"me too"

Confirmed with Asus V6J

[Ryan Rawdon (flieslikeabrick)]

Appears to be fixed in today's updates. Works on the 3 laptops we have in the house and the desktop