Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.03-2 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
Ever since switching to a Dell flat-screen (2007FPb - I was previously using a CRT) I've experienced a problem where: * I lock my X session, * I switch to a virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc.), which (because I touched the keyboard) provokes the password dialog to come up, * I don't switch back to the X display before the password dialog times out, * when I *do* switch back to the X display, my X session dies. Note that the X session is still up and running *before* I Ctrl+Alt+F7 back to try to resume it (as revealed by ps in my virtual console, and by the time-stamp on my .xsession-error). My .xsession-errors ends in: <quote> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Gdk-ERROR **: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison) Error: Can't open display Exiting from getDisplay.cpp at line 47 </quote> If I hold Ctrl+Alt until the blue time-out bar has all gone away, in the password dialog, and hit F5 while the "authentication failed" dialog is displayed, the X session dies. Holding Ctrl+Alt a bit longer, until even this dialog has gone, *then* hitting F5 changes console for me, without hurting the X session. Leaving the X session unlocked, switching to a virtual console and remaining there until the screen-saver locks the screen due to its usual time-outs doesn't provoke the problem. If I lock my X session by selecting the relevant root-window menu item and quickly (before the lock has come into force, so that the password dialog doesn't get activated) Ctrl+Alt+F5 away, the X session survives. Usually, xdm manages to start a new X session after mine has died, but not always. When it doesn't, Ctrl+Alt+F7 shows me INIT: version 2.86 reloading Naturally, applications that I've left active in my X session get hosed by the X session's death, taking with them any unsaved data; hence the "data loss" category for this bug. It's not clear to me which of several pieces of software is the culprit. I'm using fvwm as my window manager and xscreensaver as screen saver. The root window within fvwm is displaying xplanet. The virtual consoles run getty; the X session is managed by xdm. However, xscreensaver's password prompt seems pivotal. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xscreensaver depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.0-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii libxxf86misc1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l ii netpbm 2:10.0-11 Graphics conversion tools Versions of packages xscreensaver recommends: pn libjpeg-progs <none> (no description available) ii miscfiles [wordlist] 1.4.2.dfsg.1-7 Dictionaries and other interesting ii perl [perl5] 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii wbritish [wordlist] 6-2.1 British English dictionary words f ii wbritish-huge [wordlis 6-2.1 British English dictionary words f ii wnorwegian [wordlist] 2.0.9-1 Norwegian wordlist ii xli 1.17.0+20061110-1 command line tool for viewing imag -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
