Comment 51 for bug 397892

Sorry for lack of detail..
Karmic w/ gnome and metacity.
(upgrade from Jaunty, upgrade from Intrepid Install)

When I say "stop working" I mean that screensaver and powersave modes
no longer engage after any idle timeout.

Josef

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Marc Deslauriers
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Josef,
>
> what desktop environment are you using? (Gnome, XFCE, etc.)
> what change do you make in the preferences panel that makes it stop working?
> When you say "stop working", do you mean gnome-screensaver doesn't come up after the idle timeout, or does it not work at all?
>
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> Screensaver does not turn on [Ubuntu / Xubuntu Karmic]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397892
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> Status in Xubuntu: New
> Status in “gnome-screensaver” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver
>
> RELEASE:  Karmic Koala
> CD/DVD VARIANT:  64bit Xubuntu installed fresh using ext4 and grub2
> ISO BUILD:
> SYMPTOMS:  Using Applications -> Settings -> Screensaver to set the screensaver preferences has no effect. The screensaver is set to start in 10 minutes. Unfortunately, it never activates.
>
> Run in terminal gives me:
> charlie@wecan:~$ gnome-screensaver-preferences
> ** (gnome-screensaver-preferences:6402): DEBUG: Found best visual for GL: 0x21
>
> There are no entries in ~/.xsession-errors log and no entries in any system log that I can find looking in /var/log.
>
> gnome-screensaver:
>  Installed: 2.27.0-0ubuntu3
>  Candidate: 2.27.0-0ubuntu3
>  Version table:
>  *** 2.27.0-0ubuntu3 0
>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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