Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:53:12 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After upgrades last week, gnome-screensaver fails Message-ID: <1244501592.19104.131.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20090608215209.999191CC0E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090608215209.999191CC0E@ptavv.es.net>
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--=-uMtG0CM876cvJAhPgx02 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 14:52 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > > Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:47:37 -0400 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org > >=20 > > On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 10:08 +0000, knowtree@aloha.com wrote: > > > > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > > > > > Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:23:40 -0400 > > > > >=20 > > > > > On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 08:40 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > > > Since a ports upgrade last week (while on vacation), something = broke on > > > > > > multiple systems in the gnome-screensaver. All ports are now cu= rrent and > > > > > > I have no other problems, but the screensaver keeps locking me = out of my > > > > > > system. > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > The system locks normally, but it just puts up the background p= attern > > > > > > and draws the input box to allow the entry of the password. The= n it goes > > > > > > back to black (My screensaver is "Blank Screen".) Pressing a ke= y > > > > > > repeats, but it does not accept input, so I can't unlock the di= splay. > > > > >=20 > > > > > This happens after gdm is upgraded. You will need to logout, res= tart > > > > > gdm, then log back in. > > > >=20 > > > > I don't think so. I don't run gdm. I 'startx'. And, at least one sy= stem, > > > > my laptop, has re-booted multiple times since the upgrades. > > >=20 > > > I have this, and I run gdm and have rebooted several times. To break = in, > > > <Ctrl> <Alt> F1, logon as myself, ps -A | grep saver, then kill it. <= Ctrl> > > > <Alt> F9 to get back into Gnome. I now have my screen saver turned of= f. > >=20 > > Sorry, I can't reproduce. Everything works just fine for me on RELENG_= 7 > > and -CURRENT. Check the console or ~/.xsession-errors for any more > > clues. >=20 > A couple of added data point. I was going to use ktrace to look at where > things were failing, so I re-started gnome-screensaver. The problem no > longer was there. It runs fine. This makes me suspicious that it may be > related to session initialization and timing which will make it a real > bear to track down. >=20 > Oh, and nothing of interest on the console or in ~/.xession-errors. One > system has no .xsession-errors file and the mtime on the other is > 10-Nov-2006. Is the file still really used? Only when the session is started out of gdm. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-uMtG0CM876cvJAhPgx02 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkotllcACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4c4SQCeJTUzvJvQRqH3ddMPBDptUgB0 jBAAnR/0pHvL3n20PQLXlj2DtJEfHjDw =FEYu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-uMtG0CM876cvJAhPgx02--
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