Bug 13054

Summary:	xscreensaver freezing my machine?
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Tim Powers <timp>
Component:	xscreensaver	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	redhat, rvokal
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-06-26 14:29:56 UTC

I haven't done further testing, but here goes. Xscreensaver seems to lock
up the machine when it blanks the screen. The machine has to be reset. I
couldn't test to see if I could get into it remotely since I don't have any
networked machines at home at the moment. Removing xscreensaver &
kdebase-3d-screensavers fixes the problem (machine doesn't have a blank
screen and won't lock up).

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-07-03 22:52:35 UTC

*** Bug 13318 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-07-06 20:56:48 UTC

*** Bug 12256 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-07-08 19:13:53 UTC

This should be fixed in XFree86-4.0-0.32.
(FWIW, the XFree86-Servers packages also needs to be rebuilt.)

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-07-18 20:58:51 UTC

I saw this on beta3.  Was the fix supposed to be in beta3?  It hung on a moire
pattern and I totally lost control of the mouse and keyboard. 
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and Ctrl-Alt-Delete did nothing.  I had a couple of rlogin
sessions going to it and they were fine.  I tried to kill the X-server.  It died
but the screen didn't change and I didn't get control of my keyboard or mouse
back.  I had to issue a shutdown and reboot.

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-07-18 21:00:23 UTC

No, it was fixed shortly after beta3.

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-07-18 23:14:32 UTC

So, the latest xscreensaver package should fix this?

Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-07-18 23:19:06 UTC

No, you need a newer XFree86 or XFree86-Servers package. The compiler
was miscompiling part of the X server.

Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-07-19 17:46:29 UTC

Are these in rawhide?  I looked in
ftp://beta.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ and I seem to already have
the latest version of everything:

XFree86-4.0.1-0.30
XFree86-devel-4.0.1-0.30
XFree86-libs-4.0.1-0.30
XFree86-tools-4.0.1-0.30
XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-30

These version numbers seem to match what is in rawhide.

Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-07-20 16:45:15 UTC

No response to above comment so re-opening...

Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla 2000-07-20 17:07:08 UTC

They will be fixed in beta4/ the next rawhide release.

Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2001-05-02 21:02:45 UTC

This problem may still exist. When I upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1 it appeared. A
work-around seems to be to rename your old .xscreensaver file out of the way,
let it create a new one, and re-do your preferences.