[Bug 60394] Re: screensaver starts but shows only a black screen

2009-01-05 Thread heindsight
I think I know what's going on. I managed to turn on gnome-screensaver debugging on login (I had to rename /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver and replace it with a script that launches gnome-screensaver with debugging enabled. Comparing the debug output from when the screensaver worked to when it doesn't

[Bug 60394] Re: screensaver starts but shows only a black screen

2009-01-05 Thread heindsight
I thought I'd try to get to the bottom of this by killing gnome-screensaver, running gnome-screensaver --no-daemon --debug > screensaver.debug 2>&1 and then doing gnome-screensaver-command -a but when I did that, the screensaver worked correctly. I did some more experimentation and found that if

[Bug 60394] Re: screensaver starts but shows only a black screen

2009-01-04 Thread heindsight
I forgot to mention, I've been running Ubuntu on this laptop for a bit over two years, never had this problem when I was running Dapper, Edgy, Fiesty or Gutsy... -- screensaver starts but shows only a black screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/60394 You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 60394] Re: screensaver starts but shows only a black screen

2009-01-04 Thread heindsight
I'm having the same problem on my laptop running Hardy. Screensaver previews work fine, but when I lock the screen, or when the screensaver activates when the machine is idle or when I run gnome-screensaver- command -a I only get a blank screen. At first I thought the problem was due to some misco

[Bug 247921] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in pthread_mutex_lock()

2008-08-14 Thread heindsight
I couldn't get a complete backtrace. Nautilus seems to go into an infinite recursion before the crash and gdb crashes after printing the first 58203 stack frames. So, instead of uploading an 11MB file here, I just printed the innermost 21 frames. The pattern that can be seen here continues all the

[Bug 247644] [NEW] Nautilus crashes on symlink loops

2008-07-11 Thread heindsight
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus I have a directory in which I created a symlink loop (to test a script I'm working on for finding and cleaning up duplicate files). Today I (accidentally) opened this directory with nautilus, causing it to crash trying to resolve the symlinks.

[Bug 247644] Re: Nautilus crashes on symlink loops

2008-07-11 Thread heindsight
** Description changed: Binary package hint: nautilus I have a directory in which I created a symlink loop (to test a script I'm working on for finding and cleaning up duplicate files). Today I (accidentally) opened this directory with nautilus, causing it to crash trying to resolve the