Description of problem: I have "blank after 2 minutes", "lock after 4 minutes" set in the xscreensaver config. All the same, it has been *often* disregarding these numbers - the screen will go to lock *immediately*, rather than to "blank". Or it will blank, I'll move the mouse, it will unblank - and then 10 or 15 seconds later blank again. (By "often", I mean "several dozen times already today). And most of the time, I *know* there's activity going on (and yes, I'm aware of the X brain damage where "mouse keypress don't show as activity" - this has been with mouse motion and typing as well). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xscreensaver-base-5.02-3.fc8.1 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: xscreensaver-base-5.02-3 was OK - something apparently got broken in the mass rebuild.
Well, cannot reproducible on my i386 machine... I guess there is something wrong with X module components, however would you attach what ----------------------------------------------------- xscreensaver -verbose -no-capture-stderr ----------------------------------------------------- shows?
Looks like I pointed the blame in the wrong direction - looks like it's actually an issue in the X server itself causing the xscrensaver extension to fire: % xset s ... Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Zeros can't be good there. I found this when I killed off xscreensaver and I was *still* seeing the screen blank 10-15 seconds after I stopped typing. Not sure if it's an libxcb problem or a xorg-Xserver problem.
Thank you for information. Then it should be better that we ask X maintainers for help.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
I tracked this down, it was a more fundemental issue with timekeeping - glibc's gettimeofday() vdso support borked out on the kernel I was running. Basically, the system time was off by 4096 seconds, so xscreensaver and the X server's idle detection kept breaking because it would alternately check different things and see over an hour's difference in timestamps. So of course it broke because timekeeping was totally busticated. I've opened bug #264301 and will close this bug as a dup of it... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264301 ***