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Bug ID 6343352
Synopsis xscreensaver locks the screen indefinitely
State 10-Fix Delivered:Needs Verification (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory gnome:screensaver
Keywords solaris-asia-bugs
Responsible Engineer Mahmood Ali
Reported Against snv_26
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_nevada
Commit to Fix snv_27
Fixed In snv_28
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_28)
Related Bugs 6346100 , 6580999
Submit Date 28-October-2005
Last Update Date 24-January-2007
Description
I upgraded my x86 desktop to build 26 this morning.  I then went to
lunch, came back, and attempted to unlock my screen.  No dice.  The
screensaver had locked the screen and was ignoring all forms of input. 
It wasn't bringing up the unlock screen dialog on keyboard nor mouse
input.  I had to login remotely and kill xscreensaver to get back in.

I have an AMD64 desktop running the Xorg X server using the "nv" device
driver.  I'm using a logitech USB mouse and a Sun Type-6 USB keyboard.
I've experienced two versions of this problem on SPARC.

The first is as stated (the login box does not come up).

The second, the login box comes up, but does not respond to all keys. As such, I can't type in a password.

Both instances required an externbal login and killing xscreensaver.

I have attached a gcore taken from instance#2.
I hate to say this but we had one of our users pop over to 
see us this morning to tell us their session had hung (in that
when they had put their card back in they didnt get their session
back - just a grey screen). This was a user on our Sunray server
enoexec - we had Live Upgraded enoexec to Solaris 11 build 27
that very morning. Killing off the xscreensaver for this user
resulted in their session springing back into life.

So it would appear this bug might not be fixed. We didnt
collect any debug info this this unfortunatly as we thought
this problem had been resolved. 

We are waiting for this to happen again to collect all the 
proc debug info.

As you can see we are running build 27:

enoexec FSS 128 # cat /etc/release
                           Solaris Nevada snv_27 SPARC
           Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                           Assembled 07 November 2005
enoexec FSS 129
Work Around
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