Lock Screen doesn't work

[Marc Deslauriers]

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

Using Karmic Ubuntu Netbook Remix on a Dell Mini 9.

I do not use auto-login.

Selecting "Lock Screen" from indicator-applet-session doesn't do anything.

Ctrl-Alt-L locks the screen as expected, as does the following:

dbus-send --print-reply --reply-timeout=100 --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver / org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Lock

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 17 22:04:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: indicator-applet-session 0.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: indicator-applet
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

confirmation on karmic using compaq 110

[Pete24v (pete-martin)]

lock sceen was working until a recent update on my Samsung NC10... now Ctrl-Alt-L does nothing

[Pete24v (pete-martin)]

Screen saver was not ticked in the Startup Applications, Ctrl-Alt-L now works, but switch user has gone

[deChrLam (christopher-lambe)]

confirmation on Medion Akoya e1210 using Karmic UNR

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

I've found my machine unlocked a number of times, when I expected it to be safely locked away. As it turns out, this is the culprit, I've been telling my machine to lock and it hasn't happened.

The keyboard shortcut for locking works, as does the normal screensaver timeout.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Setting Importance to High. There is an expectation of auto-lock on idle sessions.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

This is caused by gnome-screensaver dying and not being detected by indicator-applet. A fix for this has been committed to Lucid.

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

This presents a security problem that should be addressed in karmic, since Lucid's still a ways off. What bug# is it in gnome-screensaver or indicator-applet, and how do we go about getting the fix pushed backwards?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

In lucid, gnome-screensaver has a DBus service configuration file, so if it dies, it will get re-spawned automatically. Also, indicator-session now gets the DBus proxy on request.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-session/trunk/revision/68