Bug#805711: Keyboard unresponsive

[Amir]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Sean Whitton 
 wrote:




 Hasn't xscreensaver become a security risk?


What makes you think this?


I thought the author didn't want to backport security fixes to older 
versions anymore.

I guess it'll just be orphaned then and picked up by someone else?

Bug#805711: Keyboard unresponsive

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:25:29PM +0200, Amir wrote:
> Both.

Okay, so a different problem to the one I saw.  So we can't exclude the
ATI drivers.

> Hasn't xscreensaver become a security risk?

What makes you think this?

-- 
Sean Whitton

Bug#805711: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#805711: Keyboard unresponsive

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:25:29PM +0200, Amir wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 16:39:08 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez
>  wrote:
> 
> > If you don't want to use light-locker and are perfectly happy with
> > xscreensaver, you're perfectly free to remove light-locker.
> 
> Hasn't xscreensaver become a security risk?

Not that I know. I've made the change for two reasons:

- because xscreensaver upstream doesn't actually want its software used
  in Debian the way it currently is
- because light-locker upstream is also involved in Xfce

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez


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Bug#805711: Keyboard unresponsive

[Amir]

Hello,



On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Sean Whitton 
 wrote:


Right, but does the mouse work in the X session?  Is it just the 
keyboard?


Both.



I saw the problem on kernel 4.6 so this is unlikely to be it.


So, would you also exclude the ATI drivers? Is it lightdm or 
lightlocker then?



On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 16:39:08 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez 
 wrote:



If you don't want to use light-locker and are perfectly happy with
xscreensaver, you're perfectly free to remove light-locker.


Hasn't xscreensaver become a security risk?
Besides, light-locker is more modern and should be default.



With regards,

Amir.

Bug#805711: Keyboard unresponsive

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:24:02AM +0200, Amir wrote:
> What exactly do you mean by "unresponsive"?
> 
> 
> The keyboard locks up for the X session and I cannot give my credentials to
> Light Locker.

Right, but does the mouse work in the X session?  Is it just the keyboard?

> As a side note: This problem disappears when upgrading to the Backports 
> Kernel.
> Oddly enough, even though it's a similar kernel to Debian Backports, Xubuntu
> 16.04 has 
> the same problems, which also disappears when going to kernel 4.6.

I saw the problem on kernel 4.6 so this is unlikely to be it.

-- 
Sean Whitton

Bug#805711: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#805711: Keyboard unresponsive

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 08:46:10AM +0900, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Dear Amir,
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "unresponsive"?  And do you login twice to
> the same login dialogue?
> 
> In my case, I have to login twice because I have xscreensaver installed
> and haven't yet figured out how to disable light-locker.  More
> significantly, after unlocking twice, X11 ignores keyboard input.

If you don't want to use light-locker and are perfectly happy with
xscreensaver, you're perfectly free to remove light-locker. It's not a
hard dependency of Xfce on Debian, it's just (now) the default locker,
that's why it's installed by default.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez


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Bug#805711: Keyboard unresponsive

[Amir]

Dear Sean,




What exactly do you mean by "unresponsive"?


The keyboard locks up for the X session and I cannot give my 
credentials to Light Locker.

As said, I have to go down to tty to restart LightDM.



 And do you login twice to
the same login dialogue?


I'm aware of that problem, which is why I had removed xscreensaver.


In my case, I have to login twice because I have xscreensaver 
installed

and haven't yet figured out how to disable light-locker.  More
significantly, after unlocking twice, X11 ignores keyboard input.


Could be a similar problem.


As a side note: This problem disappears when upgrading to the Backports 
Kernel.
Oddly enough, even though it's a similar kernel to Debian Backports, 
Xubuntu 16.04 has

the same problems, which also disappears when going to kernel 4.6.

Could this be an ATI related issue? I'm on the open source drivers with 
all firmware blobs

enabled.



Kind regards,

Amir.

Bug#805711: Keyboard unresponsive

[Sean Whitton]

Dear Amir,

What exactly do you mean by "unresponsive"?  And do you login twice to
the same login dialogue?

In my case, I have to login twice because I have xscreensaver installed
and haven't yet figured out how to disable light-locker.  More
significantly, after unlocking twice, X11 ignores keyboard input.

-- 
Sean Whitton


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