From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: After ignoring the user-set timeout delay (a different bug) gnome-screensaver fails to unblank the screen with the rawhide of 2005-10-29 installed. The cursor flashes as it is moved, but the screensaver fails to end or present the unlocking dialogue. The only things I've been able to do are: 1) kill the X server with ctrl-backspace 2) switch to a text console, login and reboot yet to try: 3) switch to text console and kill screensaver process Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-screensaver-0.0.17-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install rawhide 2005-10-29, configure, etc... 2. change gnome-screensave-preferences to (e.g.) 20 minutes and no-lock 3. wait a bit till screensaver kicks in 4. move mouse to unblank the screen and get no unblocking Actual Results: screen remains blanked Expected Results: screen should unblank and resume normal processing Additional info: test system: work1.private Intel Coppermine pentium, 256MiB RAM, standard IDE devices Trident Cyberblade/i1 video
After installing and running gnome-screensave-preferences this bug is found to be a false report. Just now reactivated my test machine screen without problems.