I am running XScreenSaver 5.22 and when I leave my screen locked for an extended period of time (so far it's been an hour or more) it crashes at some point while I am gone, so I return home to an unlocked desktop. I see that the latest stable release is 5.26 according to the author's website, yet the version in the portage repositories right now is well behind. If it makes a difference, I'm running XFCE4 with Compiz-Fusion (which I start with fusion-icon). I am on a 64bit proc, running kernel version 3.10.17 & using opensource nvidia video drivers.
(In reply to R. Whitney from comment #0) > I am running XScreenSaver 5.22 and when I leave my screen locked for an > extended period of time (so far it's been an hour or more) it crashes at > some point while I am gone, so I return home to an unlocked desktop. Not sure how you expect us to identify a bug using this description. > I see that the latest stable release is 5.26 according to the author's > website, yet the version in the portage repositories right now is well > behind. That's something we can rather fix.
Yes yes, sorry about the lack of useful information. I tried to give as much information about the packages I'm running & steps to reproduce so that hopefully someone would be able to find the time to look into it after reading this. Since it takes a fairly long about of time, the only way I could really pull off a test is by maybe running xscreensaver from cli before I go to sleep, and hope that I can catch the error that way. I'll post back when I have a little more information.
Which specific module was xscreensaver running when it crashed?
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #3) > Which specific module was xscreensaver running when it crashed? default configuration, following USE flags: jpeg opengl pam perl -gdm -new-login (-selinux) -suid -xinerama
(In reply to R. Whitney from comment #4) > (In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #3) > > Which specific module was xscreensaver running when it crashed? > > default configuration, following USE flags: jpeg opengl pam perl -gdm > -new-login (-selinux) -suid -xinerama i'm afraid you didn't answer the question xscreensaver module is a separate process (executable), like: $ qlist xscreensaver |grep lib.*misc and here you will see a long list of possibilities if one of them crashed, there would likely be brief mention of the segfault in syslog (messages, dmesg) -- just guessing (yes, debugging xscreensaver crashing is daungingly long task ;)