It starts and reports no errors, but after the allotted time of no user interaction, there is no screensaver. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xscreensaver 2. xscreensaver or xscreensaver-demo, yes to start daemon 3. and nothing. Actual Results: No screensaver. Expected Results: Screensaver! emerge --info: Portage 2.2_rc61 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r2-x86_64-AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_248-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:00:23 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/conf.d/hostname /etc/conf.d/hwclock /etc/conf.x/xdm /etc/locale.gen /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/pro-audio" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 apm aspell automount berkdb bzip2 caps cdda cddb clamdtop cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt ctype cups cxx dbus dri dssi dvd encode escreen exif extras faac faad fam ffmpeg filter flac fluidsynth fortran freebob gdbm gif gmp gnutls gpm gtk hal hddtemp iconv id3tag ieee1394 imlib ipv6 jack jackmidi java jpeg ladspa lame lash lm_sensors lv2 midi mmx modules mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam patch_loader pcre pdf perl plugins png policykit pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sensord session shout sndfile spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype twolame unicode vamp vorbis vst x264 xcf xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="*" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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There isn't much to go on with here, basically you are just saying "It doesn't work." but it's working great. Please attach a backtrace[1] of xscreensaver crashing, or possible useful console output from this and reopen the bug. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
