Ubuntu
gnome-screensaver package

gnome-screensaver never activated after inhibiting

Bug #524816 reported by Artyom Smirnov
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Screensaver
Expired
Critical
gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

If gnome-screensaver is inhibited longer than screensaver activating delay it never will activated and never locking desktop.
In attachment script which revealing this bug, just play with maximum idle time in screensaver settings and value of inhibiting in script.

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Artyom Smirnov (smirnoffjr) wrote :
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Artyom Smirnov (smirnoffjr) wrote : apport-collect data

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-screensaver 2.28.0-0ubuntu3.4
PackageArchitecture: amd64
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-02063207-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

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Artyom Smirnov (smirnoffjr) wrote : Dependencies.txt
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Artyom Smirnov (smirnoffjr) wrote : ProcEnviron.txt
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Artyom Smirnov (smirnoffjr) wrote : XsessionErrors.txt
tags: added: apport-collected
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Artyom Smirnov (smirnoffjr) wrote :

Inhibiting through session interface (org.gnome.SessionManager.Inhibit) also affected

Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)
visibility: private → public
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

I confirmed this on Karmic. Once the inhibit is removed, if no keyboard/mouse activity resets the idle timer, the screensaver never comes back up.

Uninhibiting should probably reset the idle timer.

Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-screensaver:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-screensaver:
status: New → Expired
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