Actually one more comment - I was digging into my auth.log and it may be video related. The logs when it failed to unlock and when it succeeds are identical. I then noticed that one of my three monitors shows garbage at the bottom when I tap the top left corner to bring up the app chooser view in Gnome 3.
It makes me wonder if the screensaver isn't authenticating you properly, then just failing to go away... Logs on a successful unlock and on a failure look identical: May 17 10:31:46 river gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=tony May 17 10:31:47 river gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_sss(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication success; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=tony May 17 10:31:47 river gnome-screensaver-dialog: gkr-pam: unlocked login keyring -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/744619 Title: Screen doesn't unlock; stuck on "Checking" Status in gnome-screensaver package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver When I lock the screen either by using the screensaver, locking manually, or returning from a hibernate, when the authentication dialog comes up, it doesn't unlock the screen when I enter my password. Instead, it just hangs on "Checking..." forever until I manually kill gnome-screensaver. This is on a Lenovo Ideapad, with Ubuntu 10.10 i386. None of the issues listed here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingScreenLocking) apply to me. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: gnome-screensaver 2.30.0-1ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Mar 29 00:16:59 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No GnomeSessionInhibitors: None InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: LANG=nl_NL.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver WindowManager: compiz To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/744619/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
