Bug#631988: gnome-screensaver-dialog hangs frequently

[Nikolaus Rath]

Package: gnome-screensaver
Version: 2.30.0-3
Severity: normal

Every once in a while I am unable to unlock the screensaver. Moving my mouse
and pressing keys does not bring up the unlock dialog. I then have to wait for
quite some time (I suspect it is roughly the time that it would take the dialog
to disappear again without user activity) and on the second try it usually
comes up successfully.

When switching to a console, I can see that gnome-screensaver-dialog is running
even if it's not showing a dialog. Killing gnome-screensaver-dialog and
switching back to X11 generally brings up a fresh dialog that I can use to
unlock the screensaver.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                     1.4.12-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                       2.32.4-1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme             2.30.3-2    GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session-bin            2.30.2-3    The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii  libc6                        2.13-7      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                    1.10.2-6    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.4.12-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.94-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.32.4-1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]     7.10.2-3    free implementation of the OpenGL 
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.28.6-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17        2.30.2-2    Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2               2.30.3-2+b1 an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnomekbd4                 2.30.2-2    GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.24.4-3    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam0g                     1.1.3-1     Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.28.3-6    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.4.3-2   X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                     2:1.3.0-3   X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxklavier16                5.0-2       X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxxf86vm1                  1:1.1.1-2   X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.32.0-2   power management tool for the GNOM
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          3.0.3-2    PAM module to unlock the GNOME key

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver suggests:
pn  rss-glx                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  xscreensaver-data             <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information