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gnome-screensaver package

Screen saver showing blank screen with libGL 3D driver

Bug #65810 reported by Parthan SR
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

After I did an update to my edgy beta, the screen saver has gone a blank screen. When I set the theme and try to have a preview, it works fine as full screen. But, when the actual screen saver runs its all just a blank screen. I have tried almost all the themes there but nothing runs.

I got the following error in my .xsession-errors file:

libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x25
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x25
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x25
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x25
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x25
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x25
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x25
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x25
Cutting log (size: 100023, max: 100000)DOUBLE-CLICK: 400 --> -1 THRESHOLD: 8 --> -1 libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x25
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x25

Its happening only after the update (dist-upgrade) a couple of days ago. It was running very well before that and as well in Dapper drake. Is there a fix ?

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BlackDeal (dainius-simelevicius) wrote :

The same problem for me. After upgrade from Dapper Drake to Edgy Eft (Release) instead of screen saver blank screen is shown.

Following lines in .xsession-errors file:
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x21
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x21
gnome-screensaver-Message: Found best visual for GL: 0x21

Attached xorg.conf

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Rodrigo Carvalho Silva (rcsilva83) wrote :

I had the same problem and I solved by reinstalling the gnome-screensaver package. Although it is now solved, I think this should be corrected for the next maintenance release of edgy. Unfortunately I couldn't find any trace of this problem in the log file for helping solving this problem.

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DarkMageZ (darkmagez) wrote :

i had this happen to me as well, if you kill gnome-screensaver and rerun it then it's fixed. but it shouldn't bug up in the first place.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Umm, if you dist-upgrade, you should also reboot the computer, no? Closing the bug.

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

My test machine for this bug was a clean install of edgy with updates. With regular restarts... happens on the odd occation.

Changed in gnome-screensaver:
status: Rejected → Confirmed
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BlackSir (blacksir) wrote :

I have this problem too. Clean Edgy install with all updates. Right after system start screensaver (GLMatix) works fine. But after first occurrence of 'monitor sleep mode' screensaver never shows - screen just fades (as usual) and goes completely black (bug). No screensaver appears.

Temporary fix that works for me - kill gnome-screensaver and run it again.

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BlackSir (blacksir) wrote :

Problem fixed after upgrade to Feisty Fawn

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote :

Setting Status to "Fix Released" as per the comments in this bug report.

If this is still a bug in Hardy Beta, please feel free to reopen.

Changed in gnome-screensaver:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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