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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

[SOLVED]Gnome-screensaver not kicking in

Hi, since the recent update gnome-screensaver hasn't been kicking in.
I can lock my screen with gnome-screensaver-command -l manually and I see that the gnome-screensaver process is running but it just won't activate itself after 5 minutes. I can leave my computer on for an hour and the screensaver doesn't kick in.
Does anyone else experience this ?

Last edited by moljac024 (2009-01-28 13:41:20)

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ss2

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Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 83

Re: [SOLVED]Gnome-screensaver not kicking in

I have ocassional locks when trying to unlock the screensaver. The solution for me is to kill this application.

It seems that the application has problems with libgnomekdbui. Having a look at /var/log/everything.log shows me lines like this:

Dec  3 17:32:01 t23 gnome-screensav[16328]: segfault at 11 ip b7d679c6 sp bfc329f0 error 4 in libgnomekbdui.so.3.0.0[b7d61000+f000]
Dec  3 17:32:02 t23 gnome-screensav[16329]: segfault at 19 ip b7d4a9c6 sp bf814dd0 error 4 in libgnomekbdui.so.3.0.0[b7d44000+f000]
Dec  3 17:32:04 t23 gnome-screensav[16330]: segfault at 19 ip b7d3a9c6 sp bfe053c0 error 4 in libgnomekbdui.so.3.0.0[b7d34000+f000]
Dec  3 17:32:04 t23 gnome-screensav[16333]: segfault at 19 ip b7ea29c6 sp bf86f630 error 4 in libgnomekbdui.so.3.0.0[b7e9c000+f000]
Dec  3 17:32:05 t23 gnome-screensav[16334]: segfault at 19 ip b7e4e9c6 sp bfe1bbe0 error 4 in libgnomekbdui.so.3.0.0[b7e48000+f000]
Dec  3 17:32:06 t23 gnome-screensav[16335]: segfault at 11 ip b7e529c6 sp bfe1fbe0 error 4 in libgnomekbdui.so.3.0.0[b7e4c000+f000]
Dec  3 17:32:06 t23 gnome-screensav[16336]: segfault at 19 ip b7e979c6 sp bfb64120 error 4 in libgnomekbdui.so.3.0.0[b7e91000+f000]
Dec  3 17:32:07 t23 gnome-screensav[16337]: segfault at 19 ip b7f2d9c6 sp bfcf8ac0 error 4 in libgnomekbdui.so.3.0.0[b7f27000+f000]
Dec  3 17:32:07 t23 gnome-screensav[16338]: segfault at 19 ip b7d399c6 sp bf8045c0 error 4 in libgnomekbdui.so.3.0.0[b7d33000+f000]
Dec  3 17:32:08 t23 gnome-screensav[16339]: segfault at 19 ip b7f009c6 sp bfccda90 error 4 in libgnomekbdui.so.3.0.0[b7efa000+f000]

Do you maybe have something similar?

Last edited by ss2 (2008-12-03 17:21:07)

synonym24

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Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED]Gnome-screensaver not kicking in

I have the same behaviour!

Has anybody a solution for this issue?

Do you maybe have something similar?

Nope. Nothing similar!

synonym24

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Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED]Gnome-screensaver not kicking in

I've found a solution for this issue!

Let me guess, you all have compiz running!?!

If so, than uncheck the "Unredirect Fullscreen Windows" setting in "General Options" in CompizConfig settings manager. After unchecking the screensaver will come up again!

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: [SOLVED]Gnome-screensaver not kicking in

No, I was running XMonad.
The problem was that I wasn't launching a dbus session.
All of a sudden gnome-screensaver needs to have a dbus session to work properly.

EDIT: Sorry 'bout that one, this will now be marked as solved.

Last edited by moljac024 (2009-01-28 13:41:07)

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