screen lock does not disappear even after sending interrupts

[Alan Pope]

On 1 October 2010 14:20, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem I am reporting is when at the end of 59th minutes say  55
> seconds or so I see that a screen saver is slowly becoming active then
> I do some activity with my keyboard or use my mouse so that the screen
> saver does not become active these events do not have any effect on
> this process and I get a
> screen locked.
> Ideally on an event like pressing a key or moving mouse pointer to
> some random location irrespective of 59th minute and last few seconds
> when I see the screen lock slowly coming
> the computer was not idle so screen saver should not become idle.

This is a bug. You can search for it or file a new one here:-

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bugs

Cheers,
Al.