Bug 74898

Summary:	Lock Screen does not work
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jeff Collins <jeffrey_collins>
Component:	lockdev	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	david.balazic
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Description Jeff Collins 2002-10-02 17:36:58 UTC

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Description of problem:
Lock Screen option does not work.  I click on the lock screen in the launcher
and nothing happens.  I've verified this on 3 other computers also.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log in using Gnome
2.Click on the Redhat launcher
3.Click on lock screen
	

Actual Results:  Nothing happens

Expected Results:  The screen should lock, disallowing me to continue using it
unless I supply a password

Additional info:

I am using an IBM 390E Thinkpad laptop.  I have verified this bug on an A22m
thinkpad also.  By the way, this also was a problem in the NULL beta release of
Redhat 8.

Comment 1 Jeff Collins 2002-10-03 16:51:08 UTC

I think I've figured out why it doesn't work.  It's not working when I'm logged
in as root, because the Xscreensaver isn't running.  If I log in as another user
and click the lock screen option, the Xscreensaver screen pops up and asks me
for my password.  Should this work for users logged in as root?

Comment 2 David Balažic 2002-11-21 21:45:53 UTC

It should. Or it should put up an explanation why it doesn't.

Comment 3 David Balažic 2002-11-22 00:53:08 UTC

Here is what I get in .xsession-errors file :

SESSION_MANAGER=local/localhost.localdomain:/tmp/.ICE-unix/789
Loaded background '0x8095f50
xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0

Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2002-11-22 01:32:56 UTC

If you run xscreensaver as root it prints this:

xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0.0
xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0)
xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (99/99)
 
xscreensaver: This is probably because you're logging in as root.  You
              shouldn't log in as root: you should log in as a normal user,
              and then `su' as needed.  If you insist on logging in as
              root, you will have to turn off X's security features before
              xscreensaver will work.
 
              Please read the manual and FAQ for more information:
 
              http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html
              http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man.html

It *is* true that logging in as root is a pretty bad idea, though it's 
also true that you have to use the command line to avoid 
a root login sometimes (always a bug when you have to, IMO).

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2002-11-22 03:39:20 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10715 ***