Comment 4 for bug 196464

Some files packed into a tgz file is attached. My home directory:

lgb@vega:~$ ls -ld ~
drwxr-xr-x 239 lgb lgb 20480 2008-03-03 09:06 /home/lgb
lgb@vega:~$ whoami
lgb

(note: pidgin segfault can be seen in file 'dmesg' is already reported as #197146 by me, so ignore it here)

Now I've discovered that this bug is easier to reproduce if:

1. lock the screen
2. login from remote via ssh
3. install packages/upgrades (gdm as well?) via apt-get from remote
4. come back to the console
5. try to unlock

It does not work, no password input dialog or shown, only mouse cursor blinks. If I switch to text console and kill gnome-screensaver, then switch back to my X/gnome session, the reported bug occures, no X clients can be run. However I don't remember that ALL similar bugs were got only in this mode ...