Sebastian: I know this is not the kind of bug you like, since it is
difficult to describe and hard to reproduce reliably, but it is a real
bug. Perhaps the wording of the title could be better, and we need more
people to flesh out what is happening. As it stands now, I have
absolutely no faith that gnome-screensaver will reliably lock my
computer or protect my screen, so I always manually lock my workstation
and always shut off my monitor when I am not at it. It's a shame I have
to do this.
johnsdagg: Your description in comment #7 was what drew me to this bug
report. In my case, I disable gnome-screensaver via the preferences
dialog, so I can watch hulu.com uninterrupted. When I am done watching,
I re-enable it via the preferences dialog. However, all that happens
once the timeout hits is the screen fades as though the screensaver were
activating, then it blinks back to the desktop. The screensaver will
not properly activate until I right-click on the Lock Screen applet
(that I added to my panel) and choose activate screensaver. (A weird
thing that happens then is the screensaver activates, but once I move my
mouse, it deactivates, but instantly reactivates, no matter how long I
waited after it first came on. It does this exactly once per manual
activation.) Once I have manually re-activated it, the screensaver
seems to behave normally, until the next time I deactivate it. Also, a
reboot or logout solves the problem, but that is of course not an
acceptable solution.
For me, the problem is pretty repeatable: once I deactivate the
screensaver through the preferences dialog, then re-activate it through
the preferences dialog, I must manually use the Lock Screen button
(either click to lock, or right-click and choose the "Activate
screensaver" option to activate the screensaver, but not lock). It does
not seem to matter whether I use the blank screensaver or any particular
screensaver.
I first noticed this bug after upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 on an x86
machine. I thought it was an upgrade-related bug, so I ignored it. Now
I have just done a clean stock install of 10.04 on an amd64 machine, and
I have observed the same problem.
Is there anyway to log screensaver events, such as activations and
deactivations. Clearly the screensaver is activating, b/c the screen
fades to black, but something is immediately signaling it to halt the
screensaver instantly as it activates. I would like to find out what
event is doing this, so we can fix this bug.
** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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Screensaver does not work in 9.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363635
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