gnome-screensaver wirdness

[Robert Noland]

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 04:08 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> on a couple of my workstations, after portupgrading, I've found that 
> gnome-screensaver after activating renders X unusable, as it shows desktop with 
> password dialog box for fraction of second, then blanks it back.  Killing 
> gnome-xscreensaver from other console helps, but it does not seem for me to be 
> a solution.
> 
> previously, I found it would be glitches with hald/dbus, and step-by-step 
> shutdown of these services and then starting them helped, but now it's not the 
> case: even reboot does not fix this.
> 
> Any hints? Thanks!

I see this periodically when doing port updates.  I think that it has to
do with re-installing either gnome-screensaver or consolekit.  A reboot
has always solved it for me.

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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