Bug#710425: gnome-screensaver: Floting Debian screensaver (english name guesed, german: Schwebendes Debian) often hangs

[treaki]

Package: gnome-screensaver
Version: 2.30.0-2squeeze1
Severity: normal

I am using My debian squeeze (6) with 2 monitors/screens on my nvidia grafic
card. for that i am using the orignal nvidia driver (downloaded from nvidia
site and compiled). Some time ago i used the emty screen saver for my
lockscreen. but after that i wanted to try out sth else. so i switched to the
foating debian (german name: Schwebndes Deian) screensaver.

the floting debian screensaver seems to have sometimes problems with my
multiscreen configurations. somtimes it is running on just one monitor
sometimes on both. Also much often i cant unlock the screen. i move my mouse,
the screens switch to on but are black, on one screen i can see the courser but
i cant move it to the other one. The only way to get back to my desktop is to
switch to tty1, login and type in killall gnome-screensaver. I also mentioned
that the gnome screensaver process uses a lot of cpu on this state. because
that happened now 3 or more times i will switch back to the emty screen
screensaver.

maybe i sould also mention that i have some script running to shut down my
screens after ten minutes, its looks like this and is loading with my .xlogin:

while true; do xset dpms force off; sleep 10m; done


maybe this is anought to reproduce this problem. maybe not. if there are some
logs you can use i can try to provide them but no prommise. i dont have much
time so i wount do any reproducing or sth like.

greetings treaki



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus-x11              1.2.24-4+squeeze1  simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                2.28.1-6           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                 2.11.3-4           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2             1.8.10-6           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.2.24-4+squeeze1  simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2      0.88-2.1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4           2.28.1-6           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libg 7.7.1-5            A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.24.2-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17 2.30.2-2           Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2        2.30.3-1           an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnomekbd4          2.30.2-2           GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.20.1-2           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam0g              1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0         1.28.3-1+squeeze2  Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6              2:1.3.3-4          X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6              2:1.1.2-1          X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxklavier16         5.0-2              X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxxf86vm1           1:1.1.0-2          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          2.30.3-5   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