gnome-screensaver wirdness

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 08:14 -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> 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.

Actually, it's gdm.  Every time gdm gets updated, you need to logout of
GNOME, restart gdm, then log back in.

Joe

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