Bug#887723: mate-screensaver: the screen stays darken and desktop not available anymore

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

On  Fr 19 Jan 2018 13:57:31 CET, Mike Gabriel wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On  Fr 19 Jan 2018 12:20:11 CET, Joël Krähemann wrote:
>
>> Package: mate-screensaver
>> Version: 1.18.2-1
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: the desktop must be available
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> I have installed mate-desktop and its screensaver. The screen
>> stays darken after a while it was darken. Hitting my Logitech
>> USB wireless keyboard doesn't show up login screen.
>>
>> Only way out is to restart lightdm:
>>
>> `systemctl restart lightdm`
>>
>> This possibily leads to data loss.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Joël
>>
>
> Can you try other input devices for un-blackening the screensaver?  
> Mouse movement, other USB ticket, etc.?
>
> Work-around for unlockable screensaver. CTRL+ALT+F2 (console tty),  
> log in as same user and then killall mate-screenaver.
>
> Mike

No feedback received so far, nor having seen this on other systems  
(except on rare occasions). This is definitely a sometime occurring  
bug, but this does not justify to have this bug with serious severity.

Mike
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