Bug 862553

I've seen screen lock not accept my passwd too, on two fc18 x86_64 systems.
Doesn't always happen.    Haven't found a way to reproduce (Break key doesn't lock here ???)

Does screen locking rely on /var/run/utmp to find who is logged in?
If so, this might be related to #862776   (/usr/bin/who returns no results)

I've seen this too on a F18 x86_64. Just chiming in to get notifications for this bug.

Alon

Another symptom I've seen is that the login widgets disappear leaving the gray screen and the top bar, and then nothing happens.  The screen is still not unlocked, but now all I can do is change the volume using the top-right widget.

This is still happening, and it's *extremely* annoying. What's the plan for fixing it?

I am seeing the effect from comment 3 as well. For me, it is reproducible when the "Hamster" shell extension from gnome.org is enabled and I have at least clicked "No activity" once during the session.

Is this bug possibly related to #855523?

I have seen this issue about 4 times, the last one 5 min ago.

I can still access a console login and in a process list I see abrt had a crash with a negative XXXX.

I thought that the message would have been saved in /var/log/messages, but I have searched for the message unsuccessfully. I will capture it and log the error here.

I believe this failure of the screen lock to be removed is actually a more generic issue Gnome Shell lockup.

I had the graphical Gnome shell freeze up on my a few minutes ago and I was able to recover for the first time. This time I was using Gnome Shell and while the mouse moves around all systems seems to freeze, even my music stopped. The graphical display also freezes - which is one of he reasons why I choose to display the seconds on my desktop clock.

1. I went to a console login and I found my tell-tale symptom for F18: Strange Processes referred by abrt.
root       910     1  0 11:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/abrtd -d -s
root       914     1  0 11:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/abrt-watch-log -F BUG corruption stack overflow protection fault WARNING: at nable to handle ouble fault: RTNL: assertion failed eek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! adness at NETDEV WATCHDOG ysctl table check failed INFO: possible recursive locking detected : nobody cared IRQ handler type mismatch /var/log/messages -- /usr/bin/abrt-dump-oops -xD
root       927     1  0 11:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/abrt-watch-log -F Backtrace /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- /usr/bin/abrt-dump-xorg -xD.

2. I sent the HUP signal to PID 914.

3. I also sent the HUP signal to gnome-shell and gnome-session
  - kill -9 will cause them to die and restart a new process, killing all active sessions.

4. Ctl-Alt-F1  - switch back to graphical X-Windows
  To mu surprise my Gnome Shell graphical came back to life and seems responsive. I am completing this a report in this revived session. I can also restart my music player.

I have upgraded to kernel 3.8.1 and to gnome-shell 3.6.0.2 and I am still seeing the issue.

These are the results that I have found today. I am not sure if this is the same bug, but the freezing of Gnome Shell can occur at any time, not just when trying to unlock the screen.

root       917     1  0 17:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/abrtd -d -s
root       920     1  0 17:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/abrt-watch-log -F BUG corruption stack overflow protection fault WARNING: at nable to handle ouble fault: RTNL: assertion failed eek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! adness at NETDEV WATCHDOG ysctl table check failed INFO: possible recursive locking detected : nobody cared IRQ handler type mismatch /var/log/messages -- /usr/bin/abrt-dump-oops -xD
root       930     1  0 17:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/abrt-watch-log -F Backtrace /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- /usr/bin/abrt-dump-xorg -xD
nojar     2421  2054  0 17:36 ?        00:00:00 abrt-applet

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