gnome-screensaver bad password timeout

I *may* be experiencing the same problem. However, I never waited 5 mins. - I just assumed that it crashed, and rebooted.

ATI Radeon Mobility 9100IGP

One some occasions, I will switch to a console (Alt-F1) to attempt to get something done while waiting for the screensaver to give me the login dialog again. However, when I attempt to switch back (Alt-F7) It only gives me a blank screen. So, it's possible that it is crashing some of the time. In those cases I do 'init 3', force kill gdm & X, and then 'init 5'. If I don't switch to the console it eventually comes back up though.

Really, this is the only issue I have with Ubuntu 8.04. It was minor enough I waited 8 months to report it, mostly hoping that someone else would and it would get fixed. But It's annoying enough that I finally got motivated.

I have low expectations of it getting fixed though. It's too hard to reproduce, which means it's going to be very difficult to narrow down what is the root cause. I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

Thanks for the report, May you please get us a screensaver debug log? please do the following:

killall -9 gnome-screensaver
gnome-screensaver --no-daemon --debug > /tmp/gs.log 2>&1

Reproduce the issue and attach that resulting file to the report, thanks in advance.

Here's is a snippet of the debug log. The full log was 18,000+ lines before I encountered this problem. I grabbed the data about 4 to 5 minutes before attempting to unlock and all of the data afterwards. It appears as if the screen lock happened at line 143. The (failed) unlock request appears to start on line 196. Somewhere after that there is also a successful unlock.

Thanks for the info.

I've been seeing this since upgrading to 9.04 -- Never saw it before. I reported it under Launchpad bug #181065, but what I'm seeing is better described by the earlier notes on this one.

I confirmed the problem is NOT CONSISTENT. Today I mistyped password and immediately got "Password Incorrect", then about as fast as I could read the message, the (re) Enter Password window redrew. That WAS when unlocking after a "Lock Screen" request.

(I also frequently "Suspend" this system and haven't yet had a problem unlocking from that, so wasn't immediately sure I'd ever seen a timely recovery after bad password on locked screen.)

Could somebody having this issue send it upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org , for forwarding instructions please read http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME, Thanks in advance.

Problem is still present. The time before this last time I had it I let the system try to recover for about 2 HOURS, but it never did. The only way I've found to recover is to reboot.

 I'll try to pass it up to Gnome's bugzilla when I'm a little less brain dead.

And I have this maybe wild idea I might claim it's a security issue: "Denial of Service by malicious entry of false password."

I confirm this bug, it's happened to me a couple of times now, but usually times out in around 2-3 mins. In the meantime I usually login via another terminal and use links to browse around :)

It's an incredibly annoying issue!

This just happend to me; the last time was a few month ago. I waited about 5-10 minutes, then I could type in my password again.

I've been seeing this bug in Karmic for some time now.

This bug (or a very similar bug) is alleged to have been fixed for Lucid (bug #524860).