I've been running 11.04 one week (default upgrade by Update Manager from
10.04) on ThinkiPad T500, and I have the same problem;

After leaving my laptop for a while, sometimes (approx. once a day), the system 
hangs when trying to resume;
 - Screen saver picture shows beautifully
 - Mouse pointer shows and moves with mouse
 - Nothing brings back the login password input box. (Disabling password 
protection in the screen saver doesn't help, the screensaver picture and 
mousepointer still shows with no response)
 - Starting a new session from tty1 and running ps -ef then kill on the gnome 
screen saver process doesn't even remove the screen saver picture when pressing 
CTRL+ALT+F7 or F8 (depending on original session).
 - Trying kill on several processes, I found that kill -9 on compiz was the 
only thing that could unlock the hang/freeze. Note that in 2 occasions, this 
actually kept my existing login session, not killing running 
applications/virtual machines, whereas one time I lost the entire session and 
all context/running apps. Also, I notices one time that a new session was 
kicked off in tty8 even though the one I killed was running from tty7.
 - I can't see any pattern regarding network (wired eth vs wlan vs. nothing) or 
power (battery vs. power supply) or running apps (other than the fact that 
Unity has been GUI/windowing manager)

My T500 laptop has dual graphics adaptors; An internal Intel chip (which I am 
using, locked by the BIOS setup to save power and extend battery life) and a 
ATI Radeon adaptor (PCI) which I have disabled, and I've currently not loaded 
legacy drivers.
It might be that the internal Intel chip is not acceptable for accelerating 3D 
graphics...however I never realised any problem with the previous Ubuntu 10 
releases (however not using the effects very much) or with Windows 7 for that 
sake (the Aero effects).

It seems to me that this problem is related to compiz, and also note
that default kill will not actually do anything, it's necessary to add
-9 to the kill entry to have any reaction.


Thanks for a fantastic effort in order to deliver both a very good desktop 
Linux version and support!

Brgds,
/alfs

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Title:
  Unity freezes when the desktop should be locked due to inactivity

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