"Lock screen after" setting in Screen is ignored

[Rachel Greenham]

In the settings window, in the "Screen" preferences, there are very few options, and even they don't seem to work. :-) One of them is the "Lock screen after" option where you can select a delay before the screen is locked and required a password to regain access.

I have this set to 1 hour.

But that setting is ignored. I haven't pinned down exactly how long it actually waits for; it isn't immediately after screen turn off, but it's only a few minutes longer, I think - and probably the default, whatever that was.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.92-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 21 10:49:31 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (15 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 19.92-0ubuntu1
 gnome-bluetooth 3.1.4-0ubuntu2
 indicator-datetime 0.2.95-0ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, what value do you have for the dim screen option? is the screen locked after a time corresponding to both values added?

[Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises)]

The "Turn off after" option is set to 10 minutes. And the screen does
seem to turn off after that time, or as near that I've not noticed it
doing otherwise.

At some unmeasured time after that (but way, way less than an hour)
waking it again requires the password.

I see no "dim screen" option anywhere in System Settings. (My default
language for menus and windows, in Language Support, is English (United
Kingdom) followed by English...)

--
Rachel

On 21/09/2011 13:04, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report, what value do you have for the dim screen
> option? is the screen locked after a time corresponding to both values
> added?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you take a screenshot of the config dialog?

[Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises)]

As attached

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you stop gnome-settings-daemon, run it from a command line with --debug, get the issue and copy the log to the bug?

[Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises)]

On 21/09/11 20:15, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> could you stop gnome-settings-daemon, run it from a command line with
> --debug, get the issue and copy the log to the bug?
>
I may need more specific instructions on how to do that.

When i tried it using logical-to-me means, it just respawned; before
noticing that I ran it from the commandline with --debug, it did some
stuff (log included below fwiw) and then exited.

Basically I did:

killall gnome-settings-daemon

That did kill that process, but I failed to noticed immediately that
another one of the same name (but different PID) had started up.

Then I ran

/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon --debug

And got this output (which I suspect isn't relevant):

** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: Starting settings manager
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: Loading settings plugins from
dir: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: Loading plugin:
/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/gconf.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo:
name='GConf'
file='/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/gconf.gnome-settings-plugin'
location='gconf'
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: Loading plugin:
/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/background.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo:
name='Background'
file='/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/background.gnome-settings-plugin'
location='background'
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: Loading plugin:
/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/wacom.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo:
name='Wacom'
file='/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/wacom.gnome-settings-plugin'
location='wacom'
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: Loading plugin:
/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/keybindings.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo:
name='Keybindings'
file='/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/keybindings.gnome-settings-plugin'
location='keybindings'
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: Loading plugin:
/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/a11y-keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo:
name='Accessibility Keyboard'
file='/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/a11y-keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin'
location='a11y-keyboard'
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: Loading plugin:
/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/color.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo:
name='Colour'
file='/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/color.gnome-settings-plugin'
location='color'
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: Loading plugin:
/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/media-keys.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo:
name='Media keys'
file='/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/media-keys.gnome-settings-plugin'
location='media-keys'
** (gnome-settings-daemon:27683): DEBUG: Loading plugin:
/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/housekeeping.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-dae...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can try this:

- edit /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop
- change
"Exec=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon"
with
"Exec=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon --debug"
- restart your session, get the issue you described and attach .xsession-errors to the bug

[Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises)]

As attached. Did changed, logged out, logged in, started tailing the .xsession-errors file for my own amusement, then left machine alone at 13:17.

Nearly forgot about it too long! but not quite. At 14:00 woke it up, and had to enter the password.

(Copied file to new file for upload before launching mail and web clients. Hence different filename.)

As log file doesn't show timestamps for the entries after wake-up, making sure to send this before that hour is up. :-)

[Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises)]

NB: the last line in the log before the screen dimmed was:

** (deja-dup-monitor:4532): DEBUG: monitor.vala:221: Automatic backups disabled. Not scheduling a backup.

As no timestamps on the following gnome-settings-daemon entries, and screen was black, I don't know when they happened! :-)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks, Pedro could you send that upstream with the xsession-errors log and see if they need something else?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659949

[Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises)]

Incomplete? what do you want? Ask.
> Bug Watch Updater
> 3 November 2011 17:33
> ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> Rachel Greenham
> 21 September 2011 10:53
> Public bug reported:
>
> In the settings window, in the "Screen" preferences, there are very few
> options, and even they don't seem to work. :-) One of them is the "Lock
> screen after" option where you can select a delay before the screen is
> locked and required a password to regain access.
>
> I have this set to 1 hour.
>
> But that setting is ignored. I haven't pinned down exactly how long it
> actually waits for; it isn't immediately after screen turn off, but it's
> only a few minutes longer, I think - and probably the default, whatever
> that was.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.92-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Wed Sep 21 10:49:31 2011
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64
> (20110427.1)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (15 days ago)
> usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
> deja-dup 19.92-0ubuntu1
> gnome-bluetooth 3.1.4-0ubuntu2
> indicator-datetime 0.2.95-0ubuntu1
>
> ** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity
>
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