Whenever GLflux, Flipscreen3D or Antspotlight are run, X lockups or gets really slow and bloated, the keyboard doesnt work and the mouse becomes really heavy. After a few seconds or if i hit the power button once (to properly shutdown the system), the leds on the keyboard go flashing, like a kernel panic or something. It happens every single time and only with those three screensavers. I can get rid of the problem by manually removing: /usr/lib64/misc/xscreensaver/gflux /usr/lib64/misc/xscreensaver/flipscreen3d /usr/lib64/misc/xscreensaver/antspotlight The problem lies in updating the xscreensaver package, which will probably reinstall those bugged savers and make my system crash again. Maybe those savers should be excluded from the default stable package, allowing users to add them as they please or feel safe. Thank you very much. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open xfce4 settings manager 2. Hit screensaver 3. Choose any of "Glflux", "Flipscreen3d", "Antspotlight" Actual Results: X locks up, keyboard doesn't respond, mouse goes really heavy, kernelpanic(?) Expected Results: Run a preview of any of the screensavers. I'm running gentoo linux 2006.1 up-to-date and amd64-stable. The desktop environment is xfce-4.4 + xscreensaver-4.24 + x11-drm-20060608 + via opensource x11 and kernel drivers, no proprietary binaries whatsoever. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01) Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:01:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_US" LINGUAS="en pt_BR" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dba dbus dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode exif fam firefox fortran gd gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg lcms ldap libg++ logrotate mad midi mikmod mng mono mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba scanner sdl session slang snmp sox spl ssl svg symlink tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis wmf xinetd xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx loopback" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev joystick keyboard mouse aiptek" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en pt_BR" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="via v4l vesa vga" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Can you reproduce this w/ >=x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.01-r2 ?
(In reply to comment #1) > Can you reproduce this w/ >=x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.01-r2 ? > Yes, the exact same thing happens with x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.01-r3 What should i do? Thanks.
They work fine here with Open Source Radeon, Mesa DRI. It's likely a problem with your drivers or possibly OpenGL code used in these savers. Either way you have to report this to Unichrome and/or xscreensaver upstream. It's unlikely we can do anything about this.
(In reply to comment #3) > They work fine here with Open Source Radeon, Mesa DRI. It's likely a problem > with your drivers or possibly OpenGL code used in these savers. Either way you > have to report this to Unichrome and/or xscreensaver upstream. It's unlikely we > can do anything about this. > Indeed, they also work fine with i810 and mesa DRI on my Dell Latitude D510. I'll post a bug report on xscreensaver bugzilla and link to this bug. Thanks again. NPC.
There is a FAQ entry on xscreensaver's website that blames X.org for any server crash. I've sent an email to xscreensaver devs and also posted a bug at freedesktop's bugzilla. I hope it helps. Thanks again. NPC.
