It happened again yesterday. Some interesting things were happening in auth.log, with the same frequency as screen blinking. It is attached, with some cut and paste right here.
Jun 3 18:54:22 potato su[20984]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user ichudov Jun 3 18:54:22 potato su[21029]: Successful su for ichudov by root Jun 3 18:54:22 potato su[21029]: + ??? root:ichudov Jun 3 18:54:22 potato su[21029]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user ichudov by (uid=0) Jun 3 18:54:22 potato dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.59" (uid=1000 pid=5990 comm="/usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-a") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="Get" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.10682" (uid=0 pid=21029 comm="su ichudov -c xset dpms force on ")) Jun 3 18:54:23 potato su[21029]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user ichudov Jun 3 18:54:23 potato su[21073]: Successful su for ichudov by root Jun 3 18:54:23 potato su[21073]: + ??? root:ichudov Jun 3 18:54:23 potato su[21073]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user ichudov by (uid=0) Jun 3 18:54:23 potato dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.59" (uid=1000 pid=5990 comm="/usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-a") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="Get" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.10683" (uid=0 pid=21073 comm="su ichudov -c xset dpms force on ")) Jun 3 18:54:24 potato su[21073]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user ichudov ^C ** Attachment added: "Excerpt from auth.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27493840/authlog.txt -- Closing and opening lid sometimes leads to screen ENDLESSLY BLINKING https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs