Bug#416506: Unlock dialog does not appear

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:10 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> After I lock my screen with gnome-screensaver from experimental, I am
> then unable to unlock it.
> 
> When I press some key or move the mouse, instead of showing the unlock
> dialog, It briefly shows the mouse pointer and nothiing happens. The
> only way out is to switch to the console and kill gnome-screensaver.

Can you try running /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver-dialog
and see if you can get a backtrace?
http://wiki.debian.org/?HowToGetABacktrace

> Another thing. While browsing through the bugs, I've discovered that a
> long-standing problem is fixed - displaying some sort of keyboard
> switcher in the password dialog was added. I am unable to add the
> keyboard switcher applet to the panel - it hangs untill killed. This may
> have something in common with the problem I have. The keyboard layout is
> not quite standard:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>     Driver          "kbd"
>     Option          "CoreKeyboard"
>     Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
>     Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
>     Option          "XkbLayout"     "bg,bg"
>     Option          "XkbVariant"    "latin,phonetic_bds"
>     Option          "XkbOptions"    "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,altwin:meta_win,lv3:rwin_switch"
> EndSection

Maybe, you can try to run /usr/lib/gnome-applets/gnome-keyboard-applet
from a terminal and the add it as normal from the panel. See if you can
get any error messages.

If you have time, you could also try commenting out or removing options
from the X config and see if there's anything causing a problem.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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