Comment 29 for bug 181065

I think I might have pinpointed the cause of this one (or at least, *one* cause), and it's a weird one:

I was having this same issue, and it has since gone away, and I failed to pinpoint what exactly made things change -- until Antti Kaihola's comment (number 28, above) made me remember. I had an ecryptfs directory whose passphrase was different than my login passphrase. Once I made the two passphrases the same -- voila! No more login window freezes.

What's more, during the timeframe where I had the non-matching passphrases, I had noticed another strange behavior: if I logged into the console (via tty1/tty2/etc.), I would then have to logout *twice*! The first logout would just clear the screen and bring up another shell prompt, and only the second logout would "stick".

Whether these two things (the screensaver freeze, and the double-logout) are causally related, I don't know. But it's worth putting the info out there, I suppose.

Anyway, as I said, making the passphrases match cleared up both problems.