gnome-screensaver wirdness

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> JMC> > > on a couple of my workstations, after portupgrading, I've found that 
> JMC> > > gnome-screensaver after activating renders X unusable, as it shows desktop with 
> JMC> > > password dialog box for fraction of second, then blanks it back.  Killing 
> JMC> > > gnome-xscreensaver from other console helps, but it does not seem for me to be 
> JMC> > > a solution.
> JMC> > > 
> JMC> > > previously, I found it would be glitches with hald/dbus, and step-by-step 
> JMC> > > shutdown of these services and then starting them helped, but now it's not the 
> JMC> > > case: even reboot does not fix this.
> JMC> > > 
> JMC> > > Any hints? Thanks!
> JMC> > 
> JMC> > I see this periodically when doing port updates.  I think that it has to
> JMC> > do with re-installing either gnome-screensaver or consolekit.  A reboot
> JMC> > has always solved it for me.
> JMC> 
> JMC> Actually, it's gdm.  Every time gdm gets updated, you need to logout of
> JMC> GNOME, restart gdm, then log back in.
> 
> Well, this scheme helped all the times before, but now it at least seems it 
> does not. I'll try to test it again after returning home and report back the 
> results.
> 
> Thanks!

I thought I would chime in with a "me too."  I updated ports yesterday, 
then rebooted the machine.  I only observed this when the screen saver 
is password locked.