This happens on my Dell XPS13 laptop. Here are the steps: - Close the lid - Wait a minute - Open it back up
The login screen appears. The cursor is in the password area and is flashing. Nothing I type on the keyboard does anything. - Click on anything in the top bar -- the battery indicator, or the gear icon, or the clock - Hit escape or click on the password box again Now it works. - Type my password and log in This part is interesting: the things I was typing when attempting to log in have been entered into the OS. In other words, if I had a browser window up, my password attempts are there in the address bar. So the things that I type on the login screen, when not accepted by the login screen, are actually being accepted by the underlying operating system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1349128 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 login screen doesn't accept keyboard input (until using indicators) Status in Unity: New Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 14.04 login screen doesn't accept keyboard input in the password box after my system has resumed from a sleep (=lid opening), so I can't relogin anymore Excpected behaviour: the login screen should accept keyboard input and show them as stars in the password box. Workaround: click on "switch user" in the upper right corner, after which keyboard input is accepted again. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 System is fully updated. Problem started to happen one or two weeks ago, so around mid July 2014. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1349128/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp