Bug#586259: gnome-screensaver: occasionally hangs at "Checking..." step.

Tom Fogal temporary at sogetthis.com
Thu Jun 17 19:50:02 UTC 2010


Package: gnome-screensaver
Version: 2.22.2-2
Severity: important


Perhaps once a month, gnome-screensaver will take my password and then
just sit there "Checking..." my password.  I have let this sit up to 5
minutes before, to no avail.

The only way I can get out of it (short of maybe zapping X) is to ssh
in from another machine and kill gnome-screensaver.  Today, I ssh'd in
and noticed a `gnome-screensaver-dialog' running, so I attached with
gdb and got this backtrace:

  (gdb) bt
  #0  0x00007f51d43cdb56 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
  #1  0x00007f51d48b2e18 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x644830, block=1, 
      dispatch=1, self=<value optimized out>)
      at /home/joss/deb/pkg-gnome/desktop/lenny/build-area/glib2.0-2.16.6/glib/gmain.c:2954
  #2  0x00007f51d48b34ad in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x8fa660)
      at /home/joss/deb/pkg-gnome/desktop/lenny/build-area/glib2.0-2.16.6/glib/gmain.c:2853
  #3  0x00007f51d7dac837 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  #4  0x000000000040c4a6 in gs_auth_verify_user ()
  #5  0x00000000004070d9 in ?? ()
  #6  0x00007f51d48af7ab in IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x644830)
      at /home/joss/deb/pkg-gnome/desktop/lenny/build-area/glib2.0-2.16.6/glib/gmain.c:2012
  #7  0x00007f51d48b2f7d in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x644830, block=1, 
      dispatch=1, self=<value optimized out>)
      at /home/joss/deb/pkg-gnome/desktop/lenny/build-area/glib2.0-2.16.6/glib/gmain.c:2645
  #8  0x00007f51d48b34ad in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x61bf00)
      at /home/joss/deb/pkg-gnome/desktop/lenny/build-area/glib2.0-2.16.6/glib/gmain.c:2853
  #9  0x00007f51d7dac837 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  #10 0x0000000000406ec6 in main ()

I then killed gnome-screensaver-dialog.  The dialog disappeared and I
could use my desktop again, but thankfully gnome-screensaver is still
running, so killing the dialog process seems like a better workaround,
for now.

Potentially related: in /var/log/auth.log I found this:

  Jun 17 13:34:53 shigeru gnome-screensaver-dialog: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock
'login' keyring: 1

then, later, I saw it with an interesting message before it:

  Jun 17 13:36:27 shigeru gnome-keyring-daemon[6754]: couldn't write 8 bytes to
  client: Broken pipe
  Jun 17 13:36:27 shigeru gnome-screensaver-dialog: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock
  'login' keyring: 1

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus-x11            1.2.1-5+lenny1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2              2.22.0-1             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme    2.22.0-1             GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libatk1.0-0         1.22.0-1             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6               2.7-18lenny2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2           1.6.4-7              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.2.1-5+lenny1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.76-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1      2.6.0-3              generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6        2.3.7-2+lenny1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4         2.22.0-1             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.0.3-7              A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglade2-0         1:2.6.2-1            library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.16.6-3             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-menu2      2.22.2-4             an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnomekbd2        2.22.0-1             GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomekbdui2      2.22.0-1             User interface library for libgnom
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.12.12-1~lenny1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6             2:1.0.4-1            X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnoti 0.4.4-3              sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpam0g            1.0.1-5+lenny1       Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.20.5-5+lenny1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0       0.10.0-2             pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.27-2+lenny3      PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6              2:1.0.3-2            X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6            2:1.1.5-2            X11 client-side library
ii  libxcb-render-util0 0.2.1+git1-1         utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-render0      1.1-1.2              X C Binding, render extension
ii  libxcb1             1.1-1.2              X C Binding
ii  libxcursor1         1:1.1.9-1            X cursor management library
ii  libxext6            2:1.0.4-1            X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3          1:4.0.3-2            X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6              2:1.1.4-1            X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1        2:1.0.3-2            X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxklavier12       3.5-2                X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2             2.6.32.dfsg-5+lenny1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2          2:1.2.3-1            X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.4-2            X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxss1             1:1.1.3-1            X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  libxxf86misc1       1:1.0.1-3            X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii  libxxf86vm1         1:1.0.2-1            X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12    compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.22.1-4   power management tool for the GNOM
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          2.22.3-2   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
pn  rss-glx                       <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver suggests:
ii  xscreensaver-data          5.05-3+lenny1 data files to be shared among scre

-- no debconf information






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