Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 10:38 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
>
>> Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 17:07 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE
>>>> I have observed this same problem with the screen saver.
>>>> I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3
>>>>
>>>> I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way)
>>>> to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers
>>>> and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on.
>>>> Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about
>>>> 10-minutes.
>>>>
>>>> Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and
>>>> the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works
>>>> to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
>>>>
>>>> This time I did notice that I had Firefox minimized but I am
>>>> not sure if that has anything to do with it.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas what causes this intermittent behavior?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> maybe gnome-screensaver is crashing, is it still running when the screen
>>> doesn't lock? If it is crashing, try to run it under gdb to get a stack
>>> trace and file a bug report with it attached.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. However, I am running KDE and have been
>> all along so does your suggestion still apply?
>>
>
> sorry, I read ...screensaver.. and immediately thought it was
> gnome-screensaver. If you use KDE, you might want to do the same with
> kscreensaver and see if it's crashing
>
I tried ps -ef | grep kscreensaver
and do not see any such process running here although the screensaver
is now back working following my latest reboot.
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