[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)

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)

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When I select "System" --> "Preferences" --> "Screensaver", it brings up the preferences dialog for gnome-screensaver. However, when I do a ps -e command, it lists xscreensaver as running and doesn't list gnome-screensaver. So it appears as though only xscreensaver is running.
What is the recommendation on this? Should I be running one or the other and un-install the one not being used?
I have been experiencing random hard lock ups which just started recently. I always notice these lock ups after the screensaver kicks in and I am trying to go back to the active mode. At this point I have a totally black screen and the computer is locked up. Can't ssh into it, can't use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a console screen or anything. The only thing I can do is hit the reset button. Could this be a conflict between gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver? I know other threads have suggested that these lock ups are kernel releated, but could this be part of the problem also?
Any guidance here would be appreciated.
Thanks
Pudge

They are separate screensavers now, not related to each other.
I would say that if you are running gnome, go with gnome-screensaver, it is integreated to gnome quite well nowdays.
If running with other DE or window manager, stick with xscreensaver and ditch gnome-screensaver. You can keep both installed, but running both in same time would cause problems. If you have only one running, that should not cause problems.
Try to configure xscreensaver to use only blank screen and see if it still crashes?

[SOLVED] Gnome 3 == The Green Screen of Death

Greetings,
Trying to load GNOME 3 seems to result constantly in nothing but a bright green screen and mouse, despite anything else I've tried. Nothing else loads. I have to change tty to do anything else. Doing so, I executed htop and saw that only 2% of my CPU was being used, and the only thing from GNOME3 that was running was GDM.
These are the steps I have taken before posting in here....
1.) I followed the steps in the wiki for upgrading to GNOME3. Testing repo is the first repo.
----- That brought me into fallback mode but was missing many things. Upon investigation I saw that I had never fully installed GNOME 2 to begin with, that I only had XFCE and GNOME stuff that were brought in as dependecies to some other programs I had installed. So.....
2.) pacman -Rcns gnome followed by following the Wiki for installing from scratch.
----- Got the correct GDM (takes a while to load it), but only get the green screen with mouse cursor.
3.) Thinks and searches, "Hey I need pulseaudio... maybe that is why it isn't working." So I follow the wiki on installing pulseaudio.
----- Still, green screen
4.) Maybe, just maybe, it doesn't like the nouvela driver? So I change to nvidia.
----- Still, green screen
5.) Try another pacman -Syu.
----- Nothing new related to gnome 3 updates. Still green screen.
6.) Search frantically on google for anything related to GNOME 3 not loading or showing a green screen. Searched here as well.
----- Found nothing. Still has a freaking green screen upon reboot of system (thankfully I have laptop here to use while trying to figure this out but damn, I am getting aggravated by this frustrating issue).
EDIT: Just in case it is relevant, I am using the inittab method of loading GDM.
EDIT 2: Forgot to add, I also removed all old instances of gconf and gconfd and such in an attempt to solve the green screen.
Defeated, I come here. Does anyone have any advise, suggestions, etc or does this spell the end of GNOME 3 on my computer?
Last edited by mythus (2011-04-08 15:00:17)

Greetings,
I have solved this issue. The conflict was with firefox4-beta-opensuse. I replaced it with firefox from the official repositories, and *poof*, I am now in Gnome3 with Gnome shell.
LOL, yeah I tried those things which is what led me to the answer. Actually, it was the lack of libmozjs.so anywhere on my system combined with a google search indicating that it was supposed to be in xulrunner, yet it wasn't. That is what led me to re-uploading firefox completely so that I could do away with the beta xulrunner.
Did you still need that pacman -Qm list? I am going to assume no since it is solved, but who knows, you may have seen something else in my pastebin report as well. Anyways thanks!

[SOLVED]Gnome-screensaver not kicking in

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