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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:25:10 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: screensaver still broken... 
Message-ID:  <20090821222510.52C4D1CC09@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:43:45 EDT." <4A8F0701.8040206@freebsd.org> 

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> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:43:45 -0400
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
> 
> Mike Harding wrote:
> > I still have issues where a screen lock won't let me type in my
> > password, have to kill it from a console.  Also, the LCD backlight for
> > my desktop machine doesn't turn off... something in GNOME turns off
> > the power saving in X.
> > 
> > Does these lines in ~/.xsession-errors about org.gnome.ScreenSaver
> > mean anything?
> 
> No.  Everyone sees them.  I cannot reproduce the gnome-screensaver
> problems on any of my machines.  And I don't have a machine with fully
> working power management to test backlight stuff.  I don't have any
> suggestions, either because I have not seen these problems.  Maybe some
> of the upstream GNOME people have some ideas of things to try.
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > ...
> > GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/var/tmp/keyring-nSCzz5/socket
> > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-nSCzz5/socket.ssh
> > Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/mvh/.config/metacity/sessions/10de59714e160f9b21125086698531955500000022920015.ms: Failed to open file '/home/mvh/.config/metacity/sessions/10de59714e160f9b21125086698531955500000022920015.ms': No such file or directory
> > ** (gnome-volume-control-applet:2341): DEBUG: Disabling debugging
> > 
> > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.ScreenSaver': no such name
> > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the daemon responsible for org.gnome.ScreenSaver is not running?
> > 
> > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): WARNING **: This machine is not identified as a laptop.system.formfactor is desktop.
> > 
> > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): WARNING **: This machine is not identified as a laptop.system.formfactor is desktop.
> > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): DEBUG: This machine is not identified as a laptop.system.formfactor is desktop.
> > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): DEBUG: We are not a laptop, so not even trying
> > Unable to open desktop file /usr/local/share/gnome/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory
> > system-config-printer-applet: failed to start NewPrinterNotification service
> > Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
> > 
> > ...
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I've grabbed a ktrace of it and I see a bunch of read errors. That would
make some sense as it looks like the screensaver get to the point of
accepting input when it dies.

I'll try to get a bit of time to look at it more closely, but I've just
been too busy.
-- 
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