Hi,
I've grown to like the screensaver that comes with gnome, but for
some reason it's stopped working.
I'm running Debian 2.1 with all the current upgrades, as well as
the slink updates for GNOME from www.gnome.org/~vincent. For
some reason, when I click on the "lock screen" on the gnome-panel
main taskbar, I now get nothing. I believe it just launches
Xscreensaver. Is this correct?
Here's a snippit from strace:
[dsj@sylvester dsj]$ strace xscreensaver
strace: exec: Operation not permitted
execve("/usr/bin/X11/xscreensaver", ["xscreensaver"], [/* 32 vars
*/]) = 0
Which looks pretty weird to me. So here's the long listing:
j@sylvester dsj]$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/xscreensaver
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root shadow 126872 Oct 14 1998
/usr/bin/X11/xscreensaver
I noticed the group 'shadow', which I hadn't noticed before. So
I added myself to shadow. But what is shadow? I haven't heard
of that before.
Also, though I can execute the binary from the shell now, I still
can't seem to execute it from GNOME. Any idea what's going on?
TIA!
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