Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors
On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:49:33 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> wrote:
> Hi, I'm running stretch with Xfce. Gnome is also installed. The
> login greeter appears correctly, and allows login, but if I leave the
> "greeter" screen too long, then something intervenes and puts the two
> monitors into a sleep mode (iiyama E1700S orange light). I cannot
> find any key combination which wakes up gdm3.
>
> Command « inxi -GS » reports:
>
> System: Host: maria Kernel: 4.9.0-4-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
> Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
> Graphics: Card: NVIDIA G72 [GeForce 7300 LE]
> Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: N/A (nouveau)
> Resolution: 1280x1024@60.02hz, 1280x1024@60.02hz
> GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV46 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa
> 13.0.6
>
> Command « xrandr » reports
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 4096 x
> 4096 VGA-1 connected primary 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted
> right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm
> 1280x1024 60.02*+ 75.02
> DVI-I-1 connected 1280x1024+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x
> axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm
> 1280x1024 60.02*+ 75.02
>
> xscreensaver 5.36-1 and light-locker 1.7.0-3 are both present but not
> running.
>
> Command « ps -elf | grep gdm3 » reports
>
> 4 S root 746 1 0 80 0 - 73899 SyS_po 11:36 ?
> 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm3 4 S Debian-+ 777 756 0 80 0 - 47229
> SyS_po 11:36 tty1 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session
> gnome-session --autostart /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart
>
> Is there some way of either inhibiting the screensaver action or
> recovering the greeter screen? My current workaround when this
> happens is to log in via ssh and then as root run command « systemctl
> restart gdm3.service ».
>
> Roger
I'd try simply replacing GDM with lightdm. Just a workaround, but the
oroginal problem might by very hard to solve.
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