Bug 164761 - Some screensavers don't run
Summary: Some screensavers don't run
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xscreensaver
Version: 4
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-08-01 02:15 UTC by J. William Cupp
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: FC5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-01-22 19:53:39 UTC
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Description J. William Cupp 2005-08-01 02:15:44 UTC
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User-Agent: Opera/8.02 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)

Description of problem:
I have just installed FC 4.  I have preferences to set to run almost any screen 
saver in the installation when the station is idle for two minutes, and a new 
screen saver is selected at random on each launch, and every ten minutes 
thereafter.

In the few days FC 4 has been running, quite a number of times I enter the room 
and see the screen black, with yellow text error message stating that "screen 
saver (thus-and-so) aborted abnormally" or some such wording.  

I don't know which all ones don't run (yet) and which ones do; since there are 
so many failures I suspect the problem is really in the launcher, not the 
individual screen saver routines.  (All of them worked fine with FC 3 before 
last week.)

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


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
I'd have to manually attempt to launch each screen saver routine to see which 
ones work and which ones don't.  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Christian Iseli 2007-01-20 00:55:00 UTC
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd.

Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and
either update the target product or close it ?

Thanks.

Comment 2 J. William Cupp 2007-01-22 19:53:39 UTC
I have upgraded to Fedora Core 5 and the problem no longer manifests itself.


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