Bug#785739: mate-screensaver: Not able to authenticate when screen is locked

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Shirish!

On 05/20/2015 12:49 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> While I agree theorotically with everything you say. The problem is
> mate-screensaver is just a single version across all the three
> versions.

Well, you should have done some more research, then:

> http://snapshot.debian.org/package/mate-screensaver/

There are plenty versions available.

> This means that I cannot upgrade or downgrade as you have shared. It
> must be some other component/components then which must be interfering
> as what is happening is that something is blocking the asterisk from
> appearing on the screen. Maybe it's a dependancy, maybe it's something
> else altogether. If you were to ask me to share a screenshot of the
> processes via

No, I am asking you to reproduce your problem on a clean installation.
And this isn't a support forum, this is a bug tracker. And unless you
found a bug, please don't post your personal problems here. I know it
sounds harsh and I don't mean to be harsh, but this isn't really the
place to report such issues.

> I can share that but it's kinda impossible for me as a user to know
> how the different software components interact. If you could give me
> some pointers to investigate then could do that and report that.

As I said before, do a clean installation. If it still persists, give
us instructions on how to reproduce. If it doesn't occur on a fresh
installation, it isn't really a bug I'm afraid unless you can show
us a way to reproduce it.

> If you do see something in the list which might be affecting the
> operation of mate-screensaver and its operation, please let me know
> and I will shut down that service and see if that is the source of the
> problem.

Again, this isn't a support forum and you shouldn't expect others to
fix your computer problems here. There are lists like debian-users for
these kind of problems.

Adrian

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