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[Blanton Radford <blantonradford@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was experiencing similar problems to post #32 above using VMware
Player 6, latest version.

Dual monitors.  I don't recall seeing the problem with only one, i.e. the built-in laptop one.
Problem did not occur every time - only after some varying amount of run time.
AFAIK I don't use ldap, but I will look later.
I will post auth.log later.

~$ dpkg -l unity
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                7.2.4+14.04.201 amd64           Interface designed for efficiency of space and
~$ 

My workaround was to send a hangup signal to compiz from VT1.  I say was
because as of three kernel updates ago, the problem has become worse.
Now when the screen timeout occurs when my mouse is on the Win7 VMware
VM, when I move the mouse to the host screen (which is the built-in
one), the login session crashes and restarts as if I sent ctrl-
alt.backspace, thus wiping out all running apps.  Needless to say, this
is an unworkable situation.

I am happy to provide any helpful information I can to help target this
problem.  Let me know if my situation belongs in different/another bug
report.

FYI, I much prefer the old bug.  I might try reverting kernel releases
using grub and see if that helps.

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

Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity 7.2 series:
  Fix Released
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  *** IMPORTANT **

  *** The fix is not included in TRUSTY. Will be included with next SRU.
  ***

  If you can reproduce this bug please be sure to provide the following info:
  1. Do you use a multi-head setup? If yes, using just one monitor fixes the issue?
  2. Can you reproduce all the time?
  3. Do you use ldap? If yes, using gnome-screensaver fix the issue (see comment #115) can you still reproduce that?
  4. Please consider posting /var/log/auth.log (at least part of it, should not contain sensitive information)
  5. Please specify the unity version
  *** END IMPORTANT **

  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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