Screensaver lock asks for password 2 or 3 times

[Markus Schönhaber]

08.11.2010 21:32, Christopher Lemire:

> When I was using Lucid, the screensaver when locking my screen would
> ask for the password 2 times. After the first time of entering it, the
> black would go away for about 1 second, and I'd see my desktop
> followed by it turning black again and prompting me to enter my
> password again. Then it would unlock. After reinstalling with Maverick
> 10.10 64-bit, it has been doing the same thing up until lately. Now I
> must enter my password 3x correctly for it to completely unlock.

I've also seen this on Lucid from time to time. It was always caused by
two gnome-screensaver processes running. Killing one of them got me back
to normal behaviour. But I failed to see a pattern when or why that
happened - both screensavers seemed to be started at the same time.
I wasn't annoyed enough to trace that down. And since I installed
Maverick (keeping my /home) this hasn't happened to me any-more.
Therefore, I can't be of much help, sorry.

-- 
Regards
  mks