screensaver freezes system totally

[pete]

On 05/07/10 16:55, Sean McGowan wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 12:25 +0100, pete wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Having talked a friend into trying ubumtu 10.4 lucid (he's running the
>> 64 bit version), He is encountering a problem that I have never come
>> across before.
>>
>> Namely when the screen-saver has been running for about 20mins it
>> freezes completely, and becomes totally unresponsive, only thing left is
>> a hard reset!
>>
>> His system spec are
>>
>> AMD athlon dual core processor:
>> Nvidia graphics (dunno which 1) using Nvidia current driver
>> 4gb ram
>
> I run a similar configuration, with only 3gb RAM and have not
> experienced these issues.
>
>> where would I find the relevant logs to try and start de-bugging this
>> annoyance.
> relaunch the daemon (gnome-screensaver) with the --debug option.  It will log in the /tmp directory.
>
> First, however, I would look at the power management settings.
> Systems->Preferences-Power Management, or you can get there from
> Systems->Preferences-screensaver if you already have it open.
>
> Is your computer set to hibernate?  Or monitor set to go to sleep?  Turn
> these options off and see if you run in to the same issue.
>
>
> Good luck,
>
Hi,

Thanks for the suggestions, no issues without screensaver turned on all 
power management set to never!

If I start the daemon with the --debug option and it saves to a /temp 
dir will it delete it if we need to hard reset the machine?

Have noticed that lasts longer without freezing if using 2d not 3d 
screensavers (still freezes but takes 1hr or more!), wondering if th x 
server is on the fritz! will check log tomorrow and post back if i find 
anything!

if anyone has had similar issues please let me know as I don't know 
wether to post a bug....or what the bug is in!

Regards

Pete