Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
JMC> > > on a couple of my workstations, after portupgrading, I've found that
JMC> > > gnome-screensaver after activating renders X unusable, as it shows desktop with
JMC> > > password dialog box for fraction of second, then blanks it back. Killing
JMC> > > gnome-xscreensaver from other console helps, but it does not seem for me to be
JMC> > > a solution.
JMC> > >
JMC> > > previously, I found it would be glitches with hald/dbus, and step-by-step
JMC> > > shutdown of these services and then starting them helped, but now it's not the
JMC> > > case: even reboot does not fix this.
JMC> > >
JMC> > > Any hints? Thanks!
JMC> >
JMC> > I see this periodically when doing port updates. I think that it has to
JMC> > do with re-installing either gnome-screensaver or consolekit. A reboot
JMC> > has always solved it for me.
JMC>
JMC> Actually, it's gdm. Every time gdm gets updated, you need to logout of
JMC> GNOME, restart gdm, then log back in.
Well, this scheme helped all the times before, but now it at least seems it
does not. I'll try to test it again after returning home and report back the
results.
Thanks!
I thought I would chime in with a "me too." I updated ports yesterday,
then rebooted the machine. I only observed this when the screen saver
is password locked.
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