Screensaver fails after upgrade to gnome 2.30 and Xorg 7.5

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 21:53:17 -0400
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
> 
> 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.

All of my systems except for that one are fine. I re-boooted that system,
but I won't be at its location until tomorrow, so I can't verify that it
is working. If not, I will do the polkit and policykit re-builds, but I
suspect the reboot did the trick.

Thanks!
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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