[ale] X blows out in the middle of the night?

[Jim Popovitch]

I have the same problem.  There seems to be a race condition/bug in
xscreensaver 3.32 (which is what you currently get with potato +
apt-get).  JWZ use to have a warning about it on his website
(http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/) but it is no longer there.  In it's
place there appears to be version 3.33, but I couldn't locate any debs.
 I gave up using xscreensaver and went w/ the more manual xlock.  I'll
probably give xscreensaver 3.33 a try later tonight to see if it fixes
the race problem it had with pam.

-Jim P.

--- "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>   So I have a Debian box on my desk amongst all the redhat boxes.  I
> lock
> my screen and go home at night, come in each morning and notice that
> at
> some point durring the night "X" caught a Sig4 and died.  I've got  a
> TNT2 (16Meg) in and running kernel 2.4.8.  I've been getting this
> behavior
> for a couple of kernels though.  I've compiled in the AGP and DDR
> support
> in the kernel also.
> 
>   There's nothing in the logfile as it got nuked when I started X
> this 
> morning.  I started X with "startx; date" today so hopefully I'll
> catch
> a time it went down.  However my crontab is empty so I don't think 
> anything timebased is doing the kill.
> 
> 
> Thoughts? (hopefully more details tomorrow)
> 
>   Robert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> :wq!
>
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