[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#593303: acpi-support: screensaver not activated until seconds after resuming

[Ben Armstrong]

Package: acpi-support
Version: 0.141-2
Followup-For: Bug #593303

I agree that it is not OK to not wait for the screensaver before
suspending or hibernating. Please revert this patch.

What happens both in my case and another user on Wheezy reporting via
irc today is the screensaver fails to activate until seconds after
resuming. Thus, if an unattended laptop is opened by another person and
resumed, the attacker has seconds in which to type some command (e.g.
killall xscreensaver!) thereby rendering the screen lock ineffective.

Thanks,
Ben

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpi-support depends on:
ii  acpi-fakekey       0.141-2
ii  acpi-support-base  0.141-2
ii  acpid              1:2.0.20-1
ii  lsb-base           4.1+Debian12
ii  pm-utils           1.4.1-13
ii  x11-xserver-utils  7.7+1

Versions of packages acpi-support recommends:
ii  gnome-screensaver  3.6.1-1
ii  rfkill             0.5-1
ii  xscreensaver       5.22-1

Versions of packages acpi-support suggests:
ii  radeontool  1.6.2-1.1
ii  vbetool     1.1-3
ii  xinput      1.6.0-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/acpi-support changed:
ACPI_SLEEP=true
ACPI_HIBERNATE=true
LOCK_SCREEN=true
DISPLAY_DPMS=xset
XRANDR_OUTPUT=LVDS


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