Glad to see you are still on the xscreensaver bug Bob. Thanks for staying on top of it.
I am still trying to gather the info you requested. pw On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 13:32, Bob Doolittle wrote: > Gerard Henry wrote: > > Bob Doolittle wrote: > > > >> I had another instance of this behavior reported recently, > >> and it was resolved by killing off xscreensaver. Do you have > >> the latest patches for xscreensaver? I wonder if this can > >> happen when xscreensaver tries to run a hack that crashes... > >> > >> > > > > i only found 115158 patch for xscreensaver, and it seems related to > > solaris 9, but i am on solaris 10. > > > > Somehow you missed it. For S10 it's 120094-06 for SPARC and 120095-06 > for X86. I'm not sure what you're saying wrt xscreensaver and CDE vs JDS. > Yes, it is delivered in /usr/openwin/bin, but many things are delivered > there > that are not CDE-specific (e.g. dtlogin). I'm not sure how all this will be > reorganized when CDE is EOL'd but you can expect (or fear, depending on > your perspective ;-)) xscreensaver to stick around. > > In CDE, it is dtsession that typically handles screen locks. > > utxlock uses xscreensaver, dtsession, or xlock (or whatever locker the > user specifies) as appropriate, so should work under CDE or JDS > (or KDE, for that matter, although I've not tested it). Is it not doing the > right thing for you? Note that 99% of the time utxlock misbehaves it is > due to a bug in xscreensaver :-(. We should be releasing a new patch > for it RSN (it will be patch rev -10, there were several withdrawn bad > patches since -06). > > -Bob > > > and i have a user who never logout: > > calypso-root% ps -ef|grep xscree > > userX 10785 1 0 Sep 21 pts/113 2:00 xscreensaver -nosplash > > root 3555 3407 0 17:23:05 pts/56 0:00 grep xscree > > > > Is it possible to not execute xscreensaver for a particular user? > > perhaps, i have also some gnome patches: > > calypso-root% /etc/scripts/pca -l missingall|grep -i gnome > > 119368 04 < 05 --- 50 GNOME 2.6.0: Printing Technology Patch > > 119414 10 < 11 --- 16 GNOME 2.6.0: Gnome Accessibility Libraries Patch > > 119906 05 < 06 --- 22 Gnome 2.6.0: Virtual File System Framework patch > > 120739 02 < 03 --- 50 GNOME 2.6.0: GNOME PDF Viewer based on Xpdf > > 122212 09 < 12 -S- 22 GNOME 2.6.0: GNOME Desktop Patch > > 122470 01 < 02 --- 76 Gnome 2.6.0: GNOME Java Help Patch > > > > Are these patches relaevant? but xscreensaver is in openwindows (SUNWxwsvr) > > under CDE, there is only utxlock to lock the screen, why is it not the > > same way under JDS? > > > > thanks for your help, > > > > gerard > > _______________________________________________ > > SunRay-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
