On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 08:14 -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 04:08 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > > > on a couple of my workstations, after portupgrading, I've found that > > gnome-screensaver after activating renders X unusable, as it shows desktop > > with > > password dialog box for fraction of second, then blanks it back. Killing > > gnome-xscreensaver from other console helps, but it does not seem for me to > > be > > a solution. > > > > previously, I found it would be glitches with hald/dbus, and step-by-step > > shutdown of these services and then starting them helped, but now it's not > > the > > case: even reboot does not fix this. > > > > Any hints? Thanks! > > I see this periodically when doing port updates. I think that it has to > do with re-installing either gnome-screensaver or consolekit. A reboot > has always solved it for me.
Actually, it's gdm. Every time gdm gets updated, you need to logout of GNOME, restart gdm, then log back in. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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