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[Ben Smith <le.ben.smith@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a workaround for this, use Gnome instead of Unity.

It took me a while to realize/figure out that it's pretty painless to
just run a different window manager on Ubuntu.  I did look at maybe
switching to a different lock screen but there was no straightforward
way to do that.

It turns out you just use apt to install gnome-shell and then from the login screen you have the option to run Gnome instead of Unity (click the little icon on that line with your name when you're logging in to select the window manager you want).
The bug makes Unity so inconvenient to use that I was considering switching to another Linux distribution. I don't see any downside to switching to Gnome so far, so this seems like a reasonable workaround until the problem is resolved. Or maybe forever, I don't care about Gnome vs. Unity and Gnome seems to work just fine.

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Title:
  After locking screen there is no input field to type password for
  unlock

Status in Unity:
  Fix Committed
Status in Unity 7.2 series:
  In Progress
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Sometimes (but not always) after locking the screen there is the
  situation not having any input field where I can type the password to
  unlock the session again. The shaded gray area simply does not have
  the input field. I can't do anything, I have to switch to text console
  and stop/start lightdm service to cure the problem loosing all of my
  session :(

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Apr 22 22:17:57 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-03 (780 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-10-18 (186 days ago)

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