[armel] screensaver hangs on unlock, eats cpu

This is my experience also with the rc candidate on my Dove Y0 board. The gnome-screensaver process goes to full cpu and (probably) never unlocks. It does not seem to matter which screensaver is selected, and it is my impression the forked instance of gnome-screensaver that unlocks the screen dies in some loop trying to authenticate the user. If you kill it and the base instance of gnome-screensaver, you can get back your screen, but that is not a user valid work-around :).

I have a similar problem too. When screensaver is running, sometime the machine seems locked. Switching to a virtual console and back normally show the unlock dialog. Even without switching console, typing the password blindly does the trick.

Ah, not a dove board. Just a normal PC with AI graphics (flxgr driver)

I have observed both of these problems with gnome-screensaver on two different machines. Both are running freshly-installed final releases of Karmic with latest updates as of the past week. One machine is x64 with fglrx, the other is x32 eeePC (Intel Atom + Intel graphics).

The first problem is where gnome-screensaver crashes on unlock (my desktop will not function until I switch to a tty and kill gnome-screensaver).

The second problem, as another user has reported above, is sometimes when I go to unlock my screensaver: the screensaver will stop on key/mouse input as expected but no prompt is displayed. At first I thought this was a display freeze however I discovered I could type my password blindly and my desktop would unlock.

Major issue for average users who do not know how to switch to tty, check running processes and find by logic the culprit.

With today's image (20091218), I can no longer reproduce this bug. Seems to have been fixed in one of the recent updates

This is back as of the latest Lucid release. I have a Dell Studio 15, and am running the 64-bit kernel.

This critical bug is still present on Ubuntu 10.04 i386 (Dell Inspiron 510m)
After entering the password to unlock the session, the gnome-screensaver application use about 80% to 90% CPU is hang on the "verifying" state.

The only way to proceed is to log in through a virtual console and kill -9 gnome-screensaver.

gnome-screensaver 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.36

855GM glasen ppa kernel fixed applied to be able to load ubuntu on this dell
https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/855gm-fix

Folks, this bug is specific to ARM hardware; please open a new bug if you see similar issues on x86 (Intel or AMD) hardware running lucid or maverick.

Thanks,