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gnome-screensaver package

Screen goes black when unattended and does not return

Bug #547166 reported by komputes on 2010-03-25

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This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

I have a recurring problem on Lucid - reproducible two different computers.

I lock my screen or/and leave my computer unattended. The screen goes black or displays "Out of range" and does not come back to the desktop, or to the password prompt when I move my mouse or type on the keyboard. I still have ssh access to the box.

These computers are not are set to suspend, and even if they were to suspend I would not be able to access them through ssh. I believe this is an issue with gnome-screensaver, gnome-power-manager or xorg.

Also see the following bugs for useful apport information:
Bug #547166 (gnome-screensaver)
Bug #547167 (gnome-power-manager)
Bug #547169 (xorg)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 25 14:55:46 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: Unknown
GnomeSessionInhibitors: Failed to acquire
Package: gnome-screensaver 2.29.92-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
WindowManager: metacity

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komputes (komputes) wrote on 2010-03-25:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfGnomeLockdown.txt Edit (212 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfGnomePowerManager.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfGnomeScreensaver.txt Edit (416 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfGnomeSession.txt Edit (238 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (20.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (783 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (34.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (68.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (901 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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PaulK1966 (ubuntu-keser) wrote on 2010-04-30:

#2

I believe this is affecting me too. When the screen saver comes on and has been on for a while (overnight in this case) mouse movements and keyboard do not bring up unlock screen. I do see mouse move on screen. I was able to SSH in and killall gnome-screensaver and then I could get back in.

gnome-screensaver then restarted and top showed 2 processes both with 98-99% of cup. Had to reboot.

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PaulK1966 (ubuntu-keser) wrote on 2010-04-30:

#3

98-99% of CPU is what I meant. Also I am running 10.04 x64 on a ThinkPad T60 w/4 gig of ram but only 3 is showing.

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komputes (komputes) wrote on 2010-05-02:

#4

Hi PaulK1966,
Thank you for confirming my bug. Your description of the symptoms you experienced parallel mine, so I will mark the bug as confirmed. This has happened to me once again today. As this computer did not have an active ssh server, I was not able to log into it remotely and turn it off. I had to force a reboot. As I was in the middle of a session, all unsaved data was lost and fsck took ~10 minutes to correct issues on the 8GB disk at boot. I was inconvenienced and unable to access my computer when I needed it the most. The risk of data loss and possible filesystem corruption from an untended computer is quite unfortunate and seems serious enough. However I find it odd that there are not more reports of this occurring.

Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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dino99 (9d9) wrote on 2016-01-28:

#5

There is no support for deprecated version having died a long time ago

Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

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