I can confirm this on a fresh install of Maverick on a Dell Mini 9. In the TTY1 console I see two gnome-screensaver-dialog processes, and killing the later one causes the password to be accepted and my desktop to be displayed.
$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 10.10 Release: 10.10 $ LANG=C apt-cache policy gnome-screensaver gnome-screensaver: Installed: 2.30.0-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.30.0-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.30.0-1ubuntu1 0 500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- logging in after suspend sometimes hangs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488891 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