Weird problem with mate-screensaver

[Pete Smout]

Hi,
No solution here but I suffer from the same issue, I was wondering if it
has anything do do with an error I see at boot up, error message is only on
screen for approx 0.5 of a second, and I cannot find any errors in logs.
The error is something to do with ACPI , alas I cannot be more precise as I
can never read it.

Hope this helps you to investigate further  as this screensaver / greeter
issue seems to be intermittent

On Wed, 1 Dec 2021, 16:04 Adam Funk, <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:

> Occasionally I come back to my computer to find a black screen that
> cannot be unlocked because mate-screensaver had died before something
> decided the computer was idle. The virtual consoles don't work, and
> the only way I can get back in is ssh + `sudo service lightdm restart`
> + log in again --- obviously I lose whatever was running in the GUI.
>
> I've figured out that I can prevent this by pressing ctrl-alt-L to
> check that the screensaver appears, and if it doesn't I run
> `mate-screensaver &` in a terminal --- then the screensaver works
> normally. Unfortunately I don't always remember to do this, and
> sometimes I don't know how long I'll be AFK.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu-MATE 21.10 and version 1.26.0-0ubuntu1 of
> mate-screensaver and mate-screensaver-common. The behavior in this
> confirmed bug
>
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mate-screensaver/+bug/1947905>
>
> sounds the same but I tried installing the older version
> 1.24.2-0ubuntu1 of those two packages for a week or two and had the
> same problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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