That's a new one... Yes, -sync will probably help, as will a core file stack trace. I suspect we will discover that some sub-process launched by your PAM stack is crashing and taking libpam with it. That line about an unknown process dying means that we got a SIGCHLD for a pid that xscreensaver did not launch by itself.
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