** Description changed: This has been happening since at least as long ago as 8.04. I would try to unlock my screensaver after a long time away from my computer and find that it hangs within the authentication stage. At times, a console login would work, after a long delay of 1-2 minutes, allowing me to see what was in my session before rebooting. I recently upgraded to Intrepid, and I'm now noticing that the problem is still here. Just now, it happened while I was actually using the machine, rather than during a long period of absence. I had opened Synaptic 20 minutes before, and I tried to open it again, but nothing came up. I then opened up a terminal, ran sudo -l, and entered my password, opened another terminal, ran su, and entered gibberish, since there is no root password on this system. That was at least 15 minutes ago, and both commands are still hung up in authentication. I eventually tried synaptic again and found that now that the sudo timeout has expired, a gksu dialog popped up, but upon entering my password there, it disappeared and that gksu froze as well. - I'm not sure what to do to diagnose this, but I don't want to be stuck - with this problem for another 6 months. + Perhaps this is a problem with PAM, but I'm not sure what to do to + diagnose it. I don't want to be stuck with this problem for another 6 + months.
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