screensaver still broken...

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 15:25 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:43:45 -0400
> > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> > 
> > Mike Harding wrote:
> > > I still have issues where a screen lock won't let me type in my
> > > password, have to kill it from a console.  Also, the LCD backlight for
> > > my desktop machine doesn't turn off... something in GNOME turns off
> > > the power saving in X.
> > > 
> > > Does these lines in ~/.xsession-errors about org.gnome.ScreenSaver
> > > mean anything?
> > 
> > No.  Everyone sees them.  I cannot reproduce the gnome-screensaver
> > problems on any of my machines.  And I don't have a machine with fully
> > working power management to test backlight stuff.  I don't have any
> > suggestions, either because I have not seen these problems.  Maybe some
> > of the upstream GNOME people have some ideas of things to try.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > > 
> > > ...
> > > GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/var/tmp/keyring-nSCzz5/socket
> > > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-nSCzz5/socket.ssh
> > > Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/mvh/.config/metacity/sessions/10de59714e160f9b21125086698531955500000022920015.ms: Failed to open file '/home/mvh/.config/metacity/sessions/10de59714e160f9b21125086698531955500000022920015.ms': No such file or directory
> > > ** (gnome-volume-control-applet:2341): DEBUG: Disabling debugging
> > > 
> > > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.ScreenSaver': no such name
> > > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the daemon responsible for org.gnome.ScreenSaver is not running?
> > > 
> > > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): WARNING **: This machine is not identified as a laptop.system.formfactor is desktop.
> > > 
> > > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): WARNING **: This machine is not identified as a laptop.system.formfactor is desktop.
> > > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): DEBUG: This machine is not identified as a laptop.system.formfactor is desktop.
> > > ** (gnome-power-manager:2339): DEBUG: We are not a laptop, so not even trying
> > > Unable to open desktop file /usr/local/share/gnome/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory
> > > system-config-printer-applet: failed to start NewPrinterNotification service
> > > Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
> > > 
> > > ...
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> 
> I've grabbed a ktrace of it and I see a bunch of read errors. That would
> make some sense as it looks like the screensaver get to the point of
> accepting input when it dies.

One thing that is absolutely required is that /usr/local/bin/pam_helper
exists, and setuid root.  If you run this command manually as:

/usr/local/bin/pam_helper gnome-screensaver USERNAME

Where USERNAME is your username, then type in your password, and hit
Control+D, you should get back an exit status of 0 (i.e. $? = 0 or
$status = 0).  If this tool isn't working, then unlocking will not be
possible.

Joe

> 
> I'll try to get a bit of time to look at it more closely, but I've just
> been too busy.
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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