Emilio Valencia wrote: > Hi, > > I've SunRay Server 3.1 + patches on Solaris 10 11/06. > > Sometimes, after I unlock screen inserting my card and session password > i get unlocked for 2-3 secs. and after that I get blank screen. > > At this moment I can change workspace with CTRL+ALT+CURSOR and show > workspace window but rest is black. If i press CTRL + MOON I can get a > "boot" secuence where after a black screen i get extrange login request > (similar to linux xsreensaver) but always get failed password validation. > > I resolved the problem killing session with CTRL+ALT+DELETE. > > What's happening ? > > Thanks in advance.
This sounds like a problem with xscreensaver dying under Solaris 10. As a result of this xlock gets started and authentication does not work any more. You can try to find the xscreensaver process for your display and kill it manually which will only leave the xlock process active. Then you can unlock the screen with your password. A typical sign of this situation is that the child process of the xscreensaver process is shown as defunct in the process table. One of the problems is that the xscreensaver can only be killed as root if the screen is locked. We have a service call open with Sun for this problem but so far there was not much progress. I have sent quite a bit of debug output to Sun but the cause of the problem has not yet been located. One of the problems in debugging this xscreensaver problem is that it only appears intermittend and only for some users. We have not yet found a correlation with any particular settings. There is a thread in the archives earlier this year where this problem was discussed. One possibility to avoid the problem is to disable xscreensaver and only use xlock. Regards, Matthias -- +----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Matthias Ernst | Phone: +41-44-632-4366 | | ETH Zürich, HCI D 227 | Fax: +41-44-632-1621 | | Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie | | | Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
