Bug#580923: a locked gnome-screensaver can be circumvented by inserting a pluggable media

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Jun 3 08:35:26 UTC 2010


Le dimanche 09 mai 2010 à 23:14 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg a écrit :
> when I plug in a usb stick the login window is put in the background and 
> I see the desktop and can interact with it.
> 
> so to reproduce:
> 
> 1) lock screen
> 2) insert usb stick and wait until it is mounted
> 3) voila!

I presume this is caused by a gnome-screensaver crash. To debug this
we’d need a backtrace of the gnome-screensaver process. Please attach
gdb to the process before the screen locks and try to obtain it.

See http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace for more information.

Thanks,
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