After upgrades last week, gnome-screensaver fails

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:23:40 -0400
> 
> On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 08:40 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Since a ports upgrade last week (while on vacation), something broke on
> > multiple systems in the gnome-screensaver. All ports are now current and
> > I have no other problems, but the screensaver keeps locking me out of my
> > system.
> > 
> > The system locks normally, but it just puts up the background pattern
> > and draws the input box to allow the entry of the password. Then it goes
> > back to black (My screensaver is "Blank Screen".) Pressing a key
> > repeats, but it does not accept input, so I can't unlock the display.
> 
> This happens after gdm is upgraded.  You will need to logout, restart
> gdm, then log back in.

I don't think so. I don't run gdm. I 'startx'. And, at least one system,
my laptop, has re-booted multiple times since the upgrades.
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