Lucid switchuser causes black screen

[arshad]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:51 -0700, NoOp wrote:

> 
> Yes. It's already in proposed & you can use it now _if_ you enable the
> proposed repository. See:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
> [Updates Tab]
> 
> However that will also show all proposed packages/package updates when
> you run update manager & if you don't feel comfortable using 'proposed'
> packages, I recommend not enabling it. You can use selective upgrading
> from proposed:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed
> [Selective upgrading from -proposed]
> 
> The time for packages to go from proposed to recommended depend upon the
> package and issue. For some the change may be very fast, for others the
> change may never make it & some other version may.
> 
> > 
> > and untill then, i think i don't get this problem, if i 'lock the
> > screen' and switch user and get into user 2. and log out back to user 1.
> > this way i don't get this problem.
> 
> That worked for me as well.
> 
> > 
> > thank you very much for your reply.
> 
> 
> 

Am I doing this correct? :

$ sudo aptitude install gnome-screensaver /lucid-proposedReading package
lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Couldn't find package "", and more than 40
packages contain "" in their name.
Couldn't find package "", and more than 40
packages contain "" in their name.
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 85 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done


Also,
the lockscreen and switch user thing doesn't work if you do any work in
the second user.
It only works if you just log out without doing anything and log in back
to user one.
:(

thanks Noop.