Bug 134201

Summary: GNOME screensaver doesn't see keyboard or mouse activity; won't disable
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Charles Coffing <ccoffing>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: sreeves
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0   
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Description Charles Coffing 2005-11-17 16:48:08 UTC 
I'm running SUSE Linux 10.0, with all of the YOU updates that have been made available as of Nov 17 2005.  I'm using GNOME.  Versions:  gnome-screensaver-0.0.13-2  xscreensaver-4.22-5

Starting this morning, the screensaver has been blanking and locking the screen every 10 minutes, even though I have been using the mouse and typing.

In the GNOME preferences, I had "Blank Screen" selected; timeout was 10m; screen locking was enabled.  Out of frustration, I disabled the screensaver in the GNOME preferences.  Never-the-less, 10 minutes after the previous lock, the screen locked again.

I notice that even after disabling the screensaver, it's still running.  Don't know if that is expected:
ccoffing  5808  0.0  0.5  13452  5428 ?        S    Nov09   0:31 gnome-screensaver

It's as if the gnome-screensaver is cut off from the world.  It doesn't see my activity, and it doesn't see my request to disable it.

I don't see anything suspicous in /var/log.  My machine has been up for 7 days, and been running GNOME for several weeks, and the screensaver has behaved up until today.

"kill 5808" seems to be the only solution.

*sigh*
Comment 1 Rodrigo Moya 2005-11-17 16:55:55 UTC 
Did you restart the gnome-screensaver after the YOU updates (provided there was a gnome-screensaver update)?
Comment 2 Charles Coffing 2005-11-17 17:04:43 UTC 
No.  There has been no gnome-screensaver update recently (note the install date of Sept 26.  My computer has been power cycled since then):
ccoffing1:/var/log # rpm -qi gnome-screensaver
Name        : gnome-screensaver            Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 0.0.13                            Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release     : 2                             Build Date: Tue 13 Sep 2005 06:37:37 AM MDT
Install date: Mon 26 Sep 2005 01:29:13 PM MDT      Build Host: gozinto.suse.de

Here is what has been installed/updated recently:
# rpm -qa --qf="%{INSTALLTIME}\t%{INSTALLTIME:date}\t%{NAME}\n"| sort -g
[...snip...]
1131377496      Mon 07 Nov 2005 08:31:36 AM MST ethereal
1131377512      Mon 07 Nov 2005 08:31:52 AM MST pwdutils
1131396712      Mon 07 Nov 2005 01:51:52 PM MST tcl
1131396718      Mon 07 Nov 2005 01:51:58 PM MST tk
1131396723      Mon 07 Nov 2005 01:52:03 PM MST blt
1131396725      Mon 07 Nov 2005 01:52:05 PM MST python-tk
1131396733      Mon 07 Nov 2005 01:52:13 PM MST python-devel
1131563061      Wed 09 Nov 2005 12:04:21 PM MST giflib
1131742256      Fri 11 Nov 2005 01:50:56 PM MST qemu
1132166803      Wed 16 Nov 2005 11:46:43 AM MST libgda
1132166825      Wed 16 Nov 2005 11:47:05 AM MST gtk2
1132166832      Wed 16 Nov 2005 11:47:12 AM MST gtk2-devel
1132166837      Wed 16 Nov 2005 11:47:17 AM MST gdk-pixbuf
1132183174      Wed 16 Nov 2005 04:19:34 PM MST ccm63
Comment 3 Karl Eichwalder 2005-11-17 17:42:08 UTC 
Some days ago, I saw the same behavior.  Unfortunately, I cannot offer more debug info.
Comment 4 Ulrich Windl 2005-11-18 14:00:31 UTC 
I had the same problem yesterday (logged in since Monday). Logging out and back in (from/to GNOME) seemed to fix the problem. I suspect this week's updates.
Comment 5 Charles Coffing 2006-03-06 16:30:53 UTC 
I'm seeing this again today with SL 10.0 (with all the latest updates available via YOU).
Comment 6 Charles Coffing 2006-03-06 17:33:59 UTC 
Here are some current versions, what's been updated recently, etc (although I now doubt that updates are relevant.  Just seems to be a latent bug in the gnome screensaver code that rears its head now and then.)

gnome-screensaver-0.0.13-3.1, xscreensaver-4.22-5

> uptime
 10:28am  up 20 days 22:28,  7 users,  load average: 1.25, 0.74, 0.50

> rpm -qa --qf="%{INSTALLTIME}\t%{INSTALLTIME:date}\t%{NAME}\n"| sort -g
[...snip...]
1139502188      Thu 09 Feb 2006 09:23:08 AM MST apache2-prefork
1139856572      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:49:32 AM MST poppler
1139856598      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:49:58 AM MST xpdf
1139856626      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:50:26 AM MST kernel-smp
1139856656      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:50:56 AM MST kernel-smp-nongpl
1139856709      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:51:49 AM MST kernel-source
1139856754      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:52:34 AM MST kernel-xen
1139856765      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:52:45 AM MST kernel-xen-nongpl
1139856771      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:52:51 AM MST alsa
1139856786      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:53:06 AM MST kdegraphics3
1139856804      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:53:24 AM MST kdelibs3
1139856810      Mon 13 Feb 2006 11:53:30 AM MST binutils
1140025770      Wed 15 Feb 2006 10:49:30 AM MST sysconfig
1140025786      Wed 15 Feb 2006 10:49:46 AM MST openssh
1140025789      Wed 15 Feb 2006 10:49:49 AM MST openssh-askpass
1140025789      Wed 15 Feb 2006 10:49:49 AM MST syslog-ng
1140554345      Tue 21 Feb 2006 01:39:05 PM MST gpg
1140714193      Thu 23 Feb 2006 10:03:13 AM MST resmgr
1140808930      Fri 24 Feb 2006 12:22:10 PM MST latex2html-pngicons
1140808934      Fri 24 Feb 2006 12:22:14 PM MST latex2html
1140809812      Fri 24 Feb 2006 12:36:52 PM MST gnutls
1141056253      Mon 27 Feb 2006 09:04:13 AM MST openssl
1141056279      Mon 27 Feb 2006 09:04:39 AM MST net-tools
1141244506      Wed 01 Mar 2006 01:21:46 PM MST ethereal
1141244553      Wed 01 Mar 2006 01:22:33 PM MST liby2util
1141244561      Wed 01 Mar 2006 01:22:41 PM MST ruby
1141254376      Wed 01 Mar 2006 04:06:16 PM MST qemu
Comment 7 Rodrigo Moya 2006-03-14 11:25:15 UTC 
*** Bug 156754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Rodrigo Moya 2006-03-14 11:26:19 UTC 
gnome-screensaver 2.14.0 should fix this, and has been submitted to autobuild