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Enrico Zini wrote: > Package: xscreensaver > Version: 5.04-2 > Severity: important > > Hello, > > thanks for maintaining xscreensaver. > > Here's a scenario, which is dangerous as it leads to a laptop being > suspended with the screen unlocked: > > 1. For whatever reason, xscreensaver is not running > 2. Open gnome-terminal and run xscreensaver-demo > 3. xscreensaver-demo offers to run the xscreensaver daemon, tell it to > do so, then close xscreensaver-demo > 4. After a while, you notice that xscreensaver is flooding the terminal > with debugging output: this makes that terminal useless, so close it > to reduce clutter. > 5. Suspend the laptop: you notice that the screen does not fade to > black. ps shows "xscreensaver-command -lock", but nothing happens. > Eventually, the rest of the suspend procedure kicks in and the > laptop gets suspended. > 6. Unsuspend. Ouch, the laptop is not locked. Luckily, I did not > leave it unattended. > > The workaround I'm using so far is to restart xscreensaver from a > terminal that then I keep iconised away. Hi Enrico, this is something that upstream fixed in 5.05-1 so I will just close it from > 5.05-1. Thanks for your report anyway, I hope will inform another users of this old versions that this is already fixed and can upgrade to the fully working version. Regards. - -- Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. PGP: 0xCACAB118 http://ghostbar.ath.cx/{about,acerca} - http://debian.org.ve `ghostbar' @ irc.debian.org/#debian-ve,#debian-devel-es -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH6lA9OKCtW8rKsRgRAvGkAJ9J8lQETChmsd3uWDQTd9ib188vjgCfXajs aJCd+uHdew7lO2BF54bP7gw= =fO0k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
