Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 20:43:35 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screensaver fails after upgrade to gnome 2.30 and Xorg 7.5 Message-ID: <1274499815.3136.6.camel@slan.es.net> In-Reply-To: <4BF4960D.1090206@freebsd.org> References: <20100517210132.A22261CC26@ptavv.es.net> <4BF4960D.1090206@freebsd.org>
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--=-NaQcGZqTTd5pj0IF9KFX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 21:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On 5/17/10 5:01 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I think this has happened on a previous upgrade, but I don't recall > > whether it was Gnome or Xorg that triggered it and I just upgraded both > > on my desktop. Sorry for the cross-post. > >=20 > > Gnome 2.30 is working fine as is X. The one problem is that the > > screensaver locks the screen, but will not ever prompt for input. I jus= t > > see the screen pattern appear for an instant and the screen goes back t= o > > black. > >=20 > > I'm sure I had the same issue at some time in the past, but I just can'= t > > remember the details. > >=20 > > The only message I see in the logs is: > > gnome-session[30429]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to > > lookup session information for process '30429' > >=20 > > It looks like I get one of these every time the system starts to bring > > up the unlock screen. > >=20 > > Any ideas what I might nave missed? >=20 > I typically see this after upgrading gdm. A simple reboot solves it. >=20 > In your case, it could be that you need to force an upgrade of > sysutils/polkit and sysutils/policykit. I now have a second system with this problem. It's my laptop and it's been re-booted (several times) and I have re-build both polkit and policykit.=20 No change in behavior. Every time a character is entered, the screen starts to draw the background for the screensaver, but immediately blanks again. (I use the Blank screensaver.) Any additional information I can provide?=20 --=20 R. Kevin Oberman Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-Mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510-486-8634 --=-NaQcGZqTTd5pj0IF9KFX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkv3UucACgkQkn3rs5h7N1FI5QCaApnR+5Ce+DA/k1T4GO/0CJd1 ThwAoK6u2x18zgn9/XbSSf8bYXUVP6UL =9sS3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-NaQcGZqTTd5pj0IF9KFX--
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