Screen locked after hibernate

[tsg1zzn]

WORKAROUND (from upstream bug comment 3):
set /desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_lock_screen=true

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Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

I unchecked "lock screen when screensaver is active".
I set my user to log in automatically.
And I checked "don't ask for password on login" in "user settings".

When I boot up normally I get logged in without any password. But, if I resume from hibernation, the screen is locked and I need to enter the password.

I hope you understand that this is annoying, and that it is not much of a security feature since no password is asked if I start normally.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-screensaver 2.30.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 26 14:38:51 2010
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: Yes
GnomeSessionInhibitors: 1: AppId = Totem Movie Player, Flags = 8, Reason = Playing a movie
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
Symptom: security
Title: Screen locking issue
WindowManager: metacity

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563836

[Rohit R (rr0hit)]

I could reproduce the bug with same version of gnome screensaver. Hibernating does not seem to honour the auto-login option.

[Rohit R (rr0hit)]

Setting

gconf key /desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_lock_screen=true

along with "password not asked on login" in System>Users and Groups and disabling "lock screen when screensaver is active" in Screensaver solved the problem.

But setting the gconf key to true completely disables the feature of lock screen.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

gnome-screensaver has no policy for screen locking on suspend. The screen is locked by whatever is suspending

[Traumflug (mah-jump-ing)]

Have anybody here had a look to the /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock/use_screensaver_settings gconf key? If you look there with the gconf-editor app, you even see keys to override this indepedently from the screen saver.

That said, it appears all this screen-lock-disabling stuff is pretty unreliable, see bug #255228 . A good option would probably be to get rid of those overrides and hardcode use_screensaver_settings to true, as one hardly can imagine a situation where a user wants something different between screen saver, hibernate and suspend. All of these mean "shut down partly, but keep the session", after all.