[SunRay-Users] xlock screen locking -

[Bob Doolittle]

Matthias Ernst wrote:
> Bob Doolittle wrote:
>   
>> Matthias Ernst wrote:
>>     
>>> That sounds like a good explanation. I have reenabled the xlock and will
>>> wait for the next time the problem occurs and then look in more detail on
>>> the xscreensaver process. As soon as I have more information, I will
>>> open a service call with Sun and try to get the newest xscreensaver
>>> patch.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I think this list membership would appreciate you sharing your
>> final conclusions, so folks in future could benefit from
>> your experience.
>>     
>
> Of course I will, but it might take a bit of time. We have a fairly small
> installation (about 24 Sunray stations) and the problem happens only sometimes
> and to some people. My guess is that it might actually be connected to the
> xscreensaver settings of the user. It happened about six times  during the
> first three weeks of January after upgrading the server to the latest Solaris
> 10 release but it has not happened during the last week. So I have to wait
> for the next occurence.
>
> But even if it only happens sometimes, if it happens to somebody who was
> running a long Mathematica or Matlab calculation and cannot get to their
> results, people are understandably not very happy.
>   

It's inconceivable to me that, if you kill off
the xscreensaver and xlock processes, the session
would remain inaccessible.  Unless the X server
itself is broken, which is highly unlikely.  Now that
you know better what to look for, I strongly suspect
you can regain access to the session.  Theoretically,
you may be running into the USB keyboard flakiness
we're currently tracking.  If you kill off the associated
screen lockers, and still can't access the session, try
unplugging/replugging the keyboard.

-Bob