Bug#980920: gnome-screensaver: Has stopped working, no seems to reload Gnome session with default settings (keyboard layout), crashing some programs

[Axel Stammler]

Package: gnome-screensaver
Version: 3.6.1-10
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

a couple of weeks ago (more or less), this program stopped working. It is still called at
the correct time and fades the screen as it is supposded to, but then everything disappears suddenly, only to reappear in bursts at high CPU load, so I think the session is reloaded or restarted.

After that, the cursor is on the primary display no matter where it was before the
screensaver activated and the keyboard layout is also reset to the default. Some programs
seem not to be able to survive this, e.g. Quite RSS.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.12.20-0+deb10u1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.20-0+deb10u1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                     3.28.1-1
ii  libc6                                         2.28-10
ii  libcairo2                                     1.16.0-4
ii  libdbus-1-3                                   1.12.20-0+deb10u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                              0.110-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                            2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-17                         3.30.2.1-2
ii  libgnomekbd8                                  3.26.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.5-1
ii  libpam0g                                      1.3.1-5
ii  libsystemd0                                   241-7~deb10u5
ii  libx11-6                                      2:1.6.7-1+deb10u1
ii  libxext6                                      2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxklavier16                                 5.4-4
ii  libxxf86vm1                                   1:1.1.4-1+b2

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager   3.30.0-2
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.28.2-5

gnome-screensaver suggests no packages.

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