I confirm this but it's not sporadic, it happens almost every time. After typing the password the desktop resumes nicely but a white area in the bottom left corner (I think it's a popup from checkgmail) stays white. Right-clicking it makes it disappear.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT (rev a1) -- [hardy] [nVidia] White screen after resume from suspend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224448 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs