GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 576463
can't unlock screen after upgrade until restarting gnome-screensaver
Last modified: 2009-08-21 02:58:39 UTC
* install gnome-screensaver 2.24 * start a session * upgrade to 2.26 * lock the screen * you can unlock the screen, you get a flickering screen but not password entry displayed
not sure what informations would be useful there that's easy to trigger and happen in a consistent way on different hardware, gnome-screensaver --debug has no obvious error
This is happening because gnome-screensaver-dialog deprecated the "--away-message" option after 2.24 (and replaced it with a "--status-message" option). This means that spawning a 2.27.x gnome-screensaver-dialog from a 2.24.x gnome-screensaver process fails, because it still passes the --away-message option, and appears to be what is happening here.
Created attachment 137589 [details] [review] Patch which fixes the issue Here is a patch applied in Ubuntu to resolve this issue on upgrade
I've committed a patch that will ignore the option. Thanks.