gnome-screensaver fails since recent update

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:00 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> gnome-screensaver is behaving rather badly. I'm running with two display
> in xinerama mode. I don't know whether this started when 2.16.3 came out
> or when xorg-server was last updated, but I think it started doing this
> last week. I have been on travel this week, so I really didn't get a
> chance to look at it until today.
> 
> When gnome-screensaver is activated, stderr gets:
> The program 'gnome-screensaver' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
>   (Details: serial 8169 error_code 2 request_code 78 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
> 
> (gnome-screensaver-command:56091): gnome-screensaver-WARNING **: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply raised:
>  Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
> 
> >From that point my "primary" screen is black and I have been unable to
> get to back to life without restarting and Gnome.
> 
> Interestingly, the screen is still "on" and I can see the cursor. If I
> can locate a window, I can drag it to my "secondary" screen, which is
> still working.

g-s still works for me, and you're the only one to complain.  These type
of X errors may be driver-related.  If you use the nVidia driver, make
sure you force an upgrade everytime you upgrade your xorg-libraries
and/or xorg-server ports.

Joe

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