[ale] xscreensaver problem

[John G. Heim]

When we had problems like that, it was caused by a defective video driver. 
It wasn't that it didn't authenticate, it was that after authenticating, 
there was some kind of bug that caused it to go right back to authentication 
again.

Anyway, my tip is to look at the xorg log file. On my debian systems, its 
/var/log/xorg.log.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoffrey" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
To: "ALE" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:13 PM
Subject: [ale] xscreensaver problem


> For whatever reason, every now and again, xscreensaver goes brain dead
> and won't accept my password.  I have to switch to a virtual terminal,
> kill the process, then go back to X and restart it.
>
> Anyone have any idea why it does that?
>
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
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