Screensaver password prompt timeout?

[craig1410]

Hi,
I have enabled the prompt for a password when waking from screensaver and this works fine as long as I respond to the password prompt quickly. However, if I don't respond fairly quickly then the password prompt disappears leaving a black screen with just the mouse pointer visible. No matter what I type I can't bring the password prompt back up and therefore can't gain access. The only way I can do this is to press the power button and wait for 5 minutes or so before bringing it back out of sleep and typing my password more quickly.

The machine is a new iMac 2.4G 24" if that makes any difference. All latest updates applied.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Craig.

 

[craig1410]

Just bumping this post back to the top again - I'm surprised nobody else has had this issue.

Thanks,
Craig.

 

[foreminator]

Same thing...

Same thing Craig - and I can't find any answers. Did you find anything out yet?

 

[daq]

I've got the same exact problem. The only solution I found so far is to close the lid (computer goes to sleep,) then I reopen it and it asks for the password again when it wakes up.

Probably not an ideal solution for a non-notebook.

 

[eXan]

I have the same problem and it drives me mad.

Soon enough I will get fed up with this and just turn off password for sleep and screensaver >((