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gnome-screensaver package

System Crash when screensaver starts

Bug #64621 reported by jdorwart
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gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Running Edgy on a Dell Gx-150 Pentium III 733. When left until screen saver starts (not visible), system screen goes blank. Movement of mouse or keystrokes do not awaken the system. I have set the screen saver to never start but the timeout still occurrs and the system locks. If I cntl-alt-bkspace it returns to the sign-on screen as opposed to returning to the desktop. Dapper worked well on this system. Possibly an X.org or screen saver problem.

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Erik Meitner (e.meitner) wrote :

Which screen saver is the machine configured to use? Some of them are VERY processor intensive, and with a slow CPU and no GPU the system will be brough to its knees. I think if you waited, maybe a long time, it would come back. And it is not really a system crash if you can kill X windows and get back to the login.
Try setting it to just "blank screen" and see if it does not make the machine unusable.
Obviously, there should be some way for a screensaver to "know" when it is not able to run on a machine.

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jdorwart (jdorwart) wrote : Re: [Bug 64621] Re: System Crash when screensaver starts

Thanks Erik,
     I set the screen saver to blank and had the same problem, however I
ran apt-get update and it fixed it. No idea what package caused it but
apparently it is resolved.

jeff
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 01:40 +0000, Erik Meitner wrote:
> Which screen saver is the machine configured to use? Some of them are VERY processor intensive, and with a slow CPU and no GPU the system will be brough to its knees. I think if you waited, maybe a long time, it would come back. And it is not really a system crash if you can kill X windows and get back to the login.
> Try setting it to just "blank screen" and see if it does not make the machine unusable.
> Obviously, there should be some way for a screensaver to "know" when it is not able to run on a machine.
>
>
> ** Changed in: portmap (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: portmap => gnome-screensaver
>

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

If it works fine for you now, we can close this bug.

Changed in gnome-screensaver:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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jdorwart (jdorwart) wrote :

It does now. Thank you.

jeff

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 20:05 +0000, Tormod Volden wrote:
> If it works fine for you now, we can close this bug.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
>

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