From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: Whenever I select "Lock Screen" from the Gnome menu or manually execute "xscreensaver-command -lock", I get an error message saying: xscreensaver-command: already locked. I am unable to reproduce this error because I have not figured out what I did to cause it (I've locked this workstation about eight times today). The X session on this box is about 11 days old. I will be attaching an strace output of the xscreensaver-command _and_ an strace output of the xscreensaver process itself. The inability to lock the screen could potentially be a security risk if the lock cannot be enabled after the idle period that is configured. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. see description Actual Results: xscreensaver-command: already locked. Expected Results: Screen should have locked normally. Additional info: $ rpm -q xscreensaver xscreensaver-4.06-3 I saw that the revision in the 4.06-4 Raw Hide package was negligible and should have no effect on this phenomenon.
Created attachment 87584 [details] strace output
Created attachment 87585 [details] strace output of the actual xscreensaver process
I'm assuming that this bug has disappeared off the charts (as I have not been able to reproduce it again) with 4.10.
OK. We've never been able to reproduce it here period.
I have xscreensaver-4.07-2 and the problem described above persists for 5 workstations with the same configuration.
I have found this problem to be reproducible at xscreensaver-4.07-2 with the following sequence: 1. Disable xscreensaver 2. ATTEMPT to lock screen, either by "xscreensaver-command -lock" or "Lock Screen" from the menu. (Will FAIL) 3. Enable xscreensaver -- you will now be unable to lock the screen -- -- this appears to be a bug in xscreensaver-4.07-2 -- To fix, run "xscreensaver-command -restart". There does not appear to be any way to do this from the menu.