I can confirm this behaviour on both intrepid and jaunty. The behaviour initially started after enabling automatic user login (in Administration->Login Window) although now it seems to not go away.
The problem is sporadic, affecting me around 50% of the time at present. -- Unable to unlock the screensaver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181065 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs