Sadly no .Crash file is created, it seems more that the screensaver
hangs.

To provide some more information, I ran gnome-screensaver-preferences 
(displaying the crashing screensaver) in strace, the log is included.
Detailled steps of what I did in this strace:
* Launch gnome-screensaver-preferences
* gnome-screensaver-preferences displays the crashing screensaver 
("Vlechtwerk"), as this is the current active screensaver
* The system hangs
* I press CONTROL-ALT-BACKSPACE
* The X server reboots 10 seconds after I have pressed the key combination

However, as the strace log looks normal and the application did not crash, I 
ran gnome-screensaver-preferences through strace, but monitoring the strace my 
self. That way I was able to spot where the application hangs:
*    read(3, 0x8069fcc, 4096)                = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
unavailable)
*    read(3, 0x8069fcc, 4096)                = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
unavailable)
*    gettimeofday({1203409986, 844239}, NULL) = 0
*    poll(
at that point gnome-screensaver-preferences hangs for about 10 seconds, 
sometimes it proceedes a bit (to hang at a next similar occurence), sometimes 
it hangs forever at that piece of code.

If I can provide more information, please say so.

** Attachment added: "Strace of a crashing (but correctly closing, thus not 
crashing) gnome-screensaver-preferences"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12080031/gnome-screensaver-preferences.strace

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gnome-screensaver (and gnome-screensaver-preferences) crash upon displaying 
"Vlechtwerk" screensaver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185896
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