Screensaver fails after upgrade to gnome 2.30 and Xorg 7.5

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 5/17/10 5:01 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I think this has happened on a previous upgrade, but I don't recall
> whether it was Gnome or Xorg that triggered it and I just upgraded both
> on my desktop. Sorry for the cross-post.
> 
> Gnome 2.30 is working fine as is X. The one problem is that the
> screensaver locks the screen, but will not ever prompt for input. I just
> see the screen pattern appear for an instant and the screen goes back to
> black.
> 
> I'm sure I had the same issue at some time in the past, but I just can't
> remember the details.
> 
> The only message I see in the logs is:
> gnome-session[30429]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to
> lookup session information for process '30429'
> 
> It looks like I get one of these every time the system starts to bring
> up the unlock screen.
> 
> Any ideas what I might nave missed?

I typically see this after upgrading gdm.  A simple reboot solves it.

In your case, it could be that you need to force an upgrade of
sysutils/polkit and sysutils/policykit.

Joe

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