Bug 427124

Summary: Skyrocket screensaver hangs and refuses to exit
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Justin Croonenberghs <dariael>
Component: rss-glxAssignee: Nils Philippsen <nphilipp>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Justin Croonenberghs 2008-01-01 00:33:28 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071213 Fedora/2.0.0.10-3.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.10

Description of problem:
THe Skyrocket screensaver in the RSS-GLX module hangs and refuses to exit on every invocation. When accessed via gnome-screensaver-preferences the screensaver, when selected, locks the window and refuses to exit. The window cannot be forced quit via GNOME, the process must be KILL -9 to exit. Despite this, the screensaver selection will be recorded in GConf, and any time the machine exits to screensaver, the session becomes impossible to enter; the unlock dialog never appears. All other applications continue to run.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rss-glx-0.8.1.p-15.fc8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> Screensaver
2. Select Skyrocket

Or...

1. Allow screensaver to activate, either via timeout or lock session
2. If Skyrocket is selected...

Actual Results:
Skyrocket refuses to exit, but doesn't appear as a locked process, so the only way to kill it is to KILL -9

Expected Results:
Skyrocket should have exited.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Justin Croonenberghs 2008-01-01 02:42:41 UTC
I just upgraded package to rss-glx-0.8.1.p-17.fc8 as below:

# yum clean all
# yum update

Problem remains. Also discovered that 'Skyrocket (silent)' is not affected by
this bug. Wild guess -- something to do with audio?

Comment 2 Juan Manuel Rodriguez 2008-03-26 19:11:47 UTC
Hi there, another bug report. 
After selecting the any rss-glx screensaver, Gnome crashes. 
Even removing the packages leaves the offending screensaver enabled, thus
crashing the desktop whenever it enters into Screensaver mode, or I attempt to
change the screensaver. 

Comment 3 Rick Richardson 2008-06-07 12:11:19 UTC
Ditto.  rss-glx-skyrocket hangs on Fedora 8 with all updates applied.  i386 hw.
You have to go to a text mode login (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and kill -9 it.  Then the GUI
will Ctrl-Alt-F7 return.

I did this to remove it:

# rm `locate rss-glx-skyrocket`


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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 05:40:01 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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