Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270986AbTGPTDw (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:03:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271022AbTGPTDw (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:03:52 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:36258 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270986AbTGPTDu (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:03:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:16:27 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: nuno.monteiro@ptnix.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: woes with 2.6.0-test1 and xscreensaver/xlock Message-Id: <20030716121627.0ac0d238.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20030716172758.GA1792@hobbes.itsari.int> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1966 Lines: 39 On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:58:43 -0400 (EDT) Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: | On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Nuno Monteiro wrote: | | > Is anyone else having trouble with xscreensaver/xlock under 2.6.0-test1? | > Whenever I lock my session using either "lock screen" from the menu (it | > launches 'xscreensaver lock', afaik) or "xlock", I cant seem to ever get | > my session back -- I type in the correct password, but they both just | > hang there. The exact same setup works flawlessly in 2.4.21, and just for | > the sake of curiosity I also tested 2.5.75, 2.5.74, 2.5.73, 2.5.72, | > 2.5.71 and 2.5.70, they all exhibit the same behaviour as 2.6.0-test1. I | > dont really have time to go on testing kernels to find out exactly where | > it broke, so I'm hoping anyone else is experiencing these woes. | | Someone reported this on bugzilla too, but i failed to reproduce it so it | appears that perhaps something else died like the keyboard. I tried it | last night on 2.6.0-test1 and i managed to login fine. It does appear that | something else is dying. It'd be good if you could collect the last few messages | from /var/log/XFree86.0.log and /var/log/messages and also perhaps | /var/log/dmesg. It happens to me all the time (so I stopped using xscreensaver). Alan says that it's fixed in RH 9 IIRC, but no details about the problem or the fix.... ? Sounds a little like a userspace (library or syscall) issue. Someone mentioned PAM also. -- ~Randy | http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/ | http://www.xenotime.net/linux/ | For Linux-2.6: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt or http://lwn.net/Articles/39901/ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/