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5arge

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Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 13

gnome-screensaver 2.30.0-1 : Can't unlock the screen

Starting about two weeks ago, I haven't been able to unlock my screen after the screensaver kicks in.  When I move the mouse, the desktop background image flashes for a split second, the mouse cursor is visible, and then the screensaver resumes: the prompt to unlock the screen never appears.  The only way to get back to the desktop is to kill gnome-screensaver.  I've tried re-installing it, and all of it's dependancies (with the exception of libgl as it conflicts with the nvidia package).  As I expected, no luck there, but I didn't know what else to do...

Here's the output of "gnome-screensaver --no-daemon --debug"

http://pastebin.com/1B4UZaDj

I don't know if this helps, but here's some interesting output from LD_DEBUG=libs gnome-screensaver:

      7559:    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: error: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: g_module_unload (fatal)
      7559:    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: error: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: gtk_module_display_init (fatal)
.....
      7559:    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libpixmap.so: error: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: g_module_unload (fatal)
.....
      7559:    /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: error: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: g_module_check_init (fatal)
      7559:    /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: error: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: g_module_unload (fatal)

I hope that doesn't steer anyone in the wrong direction; I just learned about LD_DEBUG last night so I don't know if it's of any help. 

Any help will be appreciated.

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: gnome-screensaver 2.30.0-1 : Can't unlock the screen

The crashes are most likely a bug in gtk 2.20.1. There's a -2 release of this package that should fix the issues you're seeing related to crashes.

5arge

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Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 13

Re: gnome-screensaver 2.30.0-1 : Can't unlock the screen

My gtk2 was already up to date (gtk2 2.20.1-2).  I tried removing it, re-installing it, and then running ldconfig, but the issue is still present.

delmonico

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Registered: 2004-06-27

Posts: 82

Re: gnome-screensaver 2.30.0-1 : Can't unlock the screen

*bump* same here

einstein

Member

From: Binghamton, NY

Registered: 2009-05-12

Posts: 14

Re: gnome-screensaver 2.30.0-1 : Can't unlock the screen

I also am now having this same problem.