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Unity in lockscreen mode does not allow password entry

Bug #1407523 reported by Lesley Walker
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Bug Description

Sometimes, when I come back to my computer after locking it, the password field is not displayed. This means I cannot enter the password, and I have to do an ungraceful shutdown of my X session.

It only happens when the workstation has been running for a while (usually a few weeks) which leads me to suspect a memory leak, or similar.

The unlock dialog box appears, but the password field is not rendered.

Lesley Walker (lrw)
tags: added: unity-panel-service
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Lesley Walker (lrw) wrote :

I'm associating unity-services because it appears (from inspecting running processes) that unity-panel-service is the thing that is failing. However I would not be surprised to find it's really a bug in compiz, or the NVidia driver.

Need guidance on what to do next to debug.

affects: ubuntu → unity (Ubuntu)
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Lesley Walker (lrw) wrote :

System info:

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

# uname -a
Linux grst01 3.13.0-43-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 8 19:35:06 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# dpkg -l unity-services
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==========================-==================-==================-==========================================================
ii unity-services 7.2.3+14.04.201408 amd64 Services for the Unity interface

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Lesley Walker (lrw) wrote :
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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

Please try the version of Unity from https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/landing-004 -- this is the current Ubuntu 14.04 LTS update in the process of landing, and I believe it contains a fix for this problem.

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Lesley Walker (lrw) wrote :

Will do. Thanks for the awesomely fast response!

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Lesley Walker (lrw) wrote :

Update installed. Will need to wait several weeks to see if the problem recurrs.

Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
tags: added: lockscreen
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