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RegUB
April 1st, 2011, 09:04 PM
After locking my GUI session, if I type my password incorrectly when I come to unlock it, the system often (not always) seems to hang for a long time, with the text "Checking..." displayed. The length of time can be many minutes.

The system is not actually frozen - if I hit CTL+ALT+F6 I can log on to a console session, from which I can see a tty7 process (i.e. the GUI session) using the 'ps' command. Sometimes the only way I can recover is to kill this process, upon which a new GUI session starts up, but this is undesirable as I lose any open applications.

Any suggestions ? (other than taking more care typing my password! :wink: )

Krytarik
April 1st, 2011, 11:53 PM
Please see my earlier post in this thread regarding a similar issue:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1699614

Greetings.