Bug 84933 – xscreensaver freezes my machine after some period

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ramiro Simões Lopes 2005-03-11 21:59:13 UTC]

After a certain random period running xscreensaver freezes my machine, nothing works. I don't think it is with some specific savers, but they are so many, need to investigate further. I know it's not the power management because it's disabled.
I don't know wich version I had before, some last year version, but I've just updated to 4.16 and it's still happening. Everything else in my system works fine.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Leave xscreensaver running for some period
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
my computer freezed

Expected Results:  
funny, shouldn't crash my system

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar  6 2005, 15:27:16)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.22-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/
http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="pt_BR.UFT-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aalib acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cross crypt
cups curl dga directfb divx4linux doc emboss encode f77 fam fbcon font-server
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++
libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl pic plotutils png python qt quicktime readline real ruby sdl shared
sharedmem slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts unicode usb x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Ramiro Simões Lopes 2005-04-13 16:34:08 UTC]

don't know, it just works now.
upgraded the system... wich I had done at the time...

[Comment 2 Luca 2005-11-28 02:22:27 UTC]

I've the same problem on my system. It happens approx 1 time per week average.
The system freezes though only when I try to exit the screensaver and the
request for the password should appear. I don't know whether turning off the
password request the problem goes away. The xscreensaver version I'm using is:
x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.22-r4. This is emerge info output:

Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"
LINGUAS="it"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr
crypt cups curl dvd eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb
fortran gdbm gif gimp glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib
ipv6 java jpeg junit kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mng motif
mozilla mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre
pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl spell
ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis
win32codecs xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_it userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 3 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2005-11-28 02:30:52 UTC]

Could you try 4.23?

[Comment 4 Luca 2005-11-28 02:43:23 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Could you try 4.23?

Sure. It'll take some time since as I said the bug shows in random time. I'll
report what will happen.

[Comment 5 Luca 2005-11-29 06:06:37 UTC]

Ok. I just had to reset since the system freezed again. The mouse pointer
appeared and freezed, the image of the screen freezed as well but no request for
password. Nothing was working. The system was doing nothing when the problem
appeared this time. xscreensaver version is 4.23.

[Comment 6 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2005-11-30 12:48:14 UTC]

Luca confirmed this as a bug.

[Comment 7 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2006-02-11 08:12:17 UTC]

Could you try with USE="new-login" ?

[Comment 8 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2006-02-11 08:15:16 UTC]

Sorry, that comment was for other bug. I can't reproduce it.