Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:40:27 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnome-screensaver wirdness Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906091939190.38250@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <1244560229.19104.160.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906090403340.9880@woozle.rinet.ru> <1244553273.60347.1470.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <1244560229.19104.160.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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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! -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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