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and subject line Re: when focus is on VM machine, debian's screen locker
doesn't kick in
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regarding when focus is on VM machine, debian's screen locker doesn't kick in
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Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 3.2.10-dfsg-1+squeeze1
Severity: important
Hi there,
I'm tagging this as "important" since this is a security issue (at
least from my prespective).
When using virtualbox-ose (only tested in stable's version) to run a
VM, and the VM
grabs both keyboard and mouse focus, Debian's configured lock screen
doesn't kick in
as expected in inactivity.
Eg:
* Configure your screensaver with lock screen (needing a password to
unlock), and make it
run when there's no activity in two minutes;
* Wait two minutes and the screen gets locked, as expected.
* Unlock screen, run virtualbox-ose, open a VM, put the focus
(keyboard and mouse) in the
VM;
* Wait two minutes without activity.
Expected: (debian) screen gets locked
What happens: nothing, screen doesn't get locked
Thanks for your time,
Marcos Marado
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii libc6 2.13-27 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcurl3 7.21.1-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0-1 GCC support library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1+squeeze4 PNG library - runtime
ii libpython2.6 2.6.6-8+b1 Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.14-6.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-4squeeze14 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.7.0-1 GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libvncserver0 0.9.7-2+b1 API to write one's own vnc server
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.10-2 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze6 GNOME XML library
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze7 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-central 0.6.16+nmu1 register and build utility for Pyt
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [ 7.7.1-5 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libqt4-opengl 4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 OpenGL module
ii libqtcore4 4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 GUI module
ii virtualbox-ose-dk 3.2.10-dfsg-1+squeeze1 x86 virtualization solution - kern
ii virtualbox-ose-qt 3.2.10-dfsg-1+squeeze1 x86 virtualization solution - Qt b
Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
ii libasound2 1.0.24.1-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libpulse0 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 PulseAudio client libraries
pn vde2 <none> (no description available)
pn virtualbox-guest-addit <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
* virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: true
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(cleaning up ancient bugs.)
if this is still a issue, please reopen.
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