FS#21395 - pam auth error; can not resume from gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kim (dedanna1029) - Thursday, 21 October 2010, 15:55 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 25 November 2010, 07:46 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
I am unable to resume from gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver, since updates on Monday, Oct. 18th, 2010. This is without suspend or hibernation turned on - it is solely with screensavers.

When I attempt to resume from xscreensaver by either moving the mouse or a key on the keyboard, there is a PAM authentication error, however, I can not see the error in its entirety; the screen goes almost straight away to blank. The only way at this time to resume from xscreensaver is to go to tty and kill it there, using Ctrl+Alt+F2 (which I am able to do).

When I attempt to resume from gnome-screensaver, it takes it at least some 30 seconds to do so, and when it does, my hard drive runs for some 3 minutes (literally!!), trying to catch up from it (so to speak), so there may as well be a memory issue.

This currently is the only single issue I have in Arch - it is 100% rock stable with everything else that I use.

$ uname -a
Linux dedanna.rocks.net 2.6.35-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 29 07:17:20 UTC 2010 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

This is on an Nvidia 7300 GT card btw.

Any help with this is much appreciated. This also happened with the previous nvidia256 driver.


Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

$ pacman -Q nvidia
nvidia 260.19.12-1

Versions of Xorg, etc. can be found in the attached logs.


Steps to reproduce:

1) Update Arch, with xscreensaver and gnome updates this week
2) Turn on gnome-screensaver, OR
3) Alternatively, turn on xscreensaver with Xscreensaver-demo
4) Leave the computer for a while, let screensavers run (I typically do overnight)
5) Attempt to resume from screensavers using either the mouse or keyboard - note that with xscreensaver, you can not resume, and with gnome-screensaver, it takes time, and leaves the hard drive running for several minutes.

If any other information is needed, please let me know.

Thank you!
   xorg.conf.txt (1.6 KiB)
   Xorg.0.log.txt (14.1 KiB)
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Thursday, 25 November 2010, 07:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Kim (dedanna1029) - Friday, 22 October 2010, 02:24 GMT
Further info, I'm sorry I didn't include it initially:

$ pacman -Q xscreensaver
xscreensaver 5.12-1

$ pacman -Q gnome-screensaver
gnome-screensaver 2.30.2-1
Comment by Kim (dedanna1029) - Sunday, 24 October 2010, 01:22 GMT
I have run since I filed this bug with no screensavers turned on; they are all turned off. Also, even though I've set my screen to blank as off, it still blanks when I leave it for the night, and in the morning I have a heck of a time resuming from the blanking. I've tried turning the monitor on and off to get it to resume, and it doesn't work, so I hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 and Ctrl+Alt+F7 to get back to the desktop - only then will it resume, and even then sometimes I have to do it a second time.

This is not good...
Comment by Kim (dedanna1029) - Sunday, 24 October 2010, 01:25 GMT
I'm attaching my .xsession-errors file in the hopes there may be something there that will help.

Thanks.
Comment by Kim (dedanna1029) - Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 07:07 GMT
I'm really wishing this would go somewhere. I'm still having a heckuva time with it in Arch. It's next to impossible to resume from blanking in the mornings when I get up; it takes me a good half hour to get it to, and I really can't shut down overnight.

I have done everything that I possibly can using xset, among other things, and still have this going on with my monitor, the blanking, even with dpms completely turned off, along with both gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver. Please see this thread: http://bjoernvold.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=838

I need help with this, on a Samsung Syncmaster 731B monitor, an Nvidia 7300 GT card, and nowhere to go at this time but down! Thanks!
Comment by Kim (dedanna1029) - Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 07:08 GMT
I am fully updated, by the way, with the latest Nvidia driver and latest Xorg to date in the Arch repos.
Comment by Kim (dedanna1029) - Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 07:11 GMT
And if you think the bug is upstream, please let me know, so I can file it there.

Thanks.
Comment by Kim (dedanna1029) - Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 17:02 GMT
I need to close this bug - have found since that it's either a kernel, monitor, or hard drive resuming bug - not sure which. I'll be testing to see.

http://bjoernvold.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5883#p5883

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