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xscreensaver sometimes fails

#1 Post by bitfikler »

Hi!
I'm using xscreensaver on my MX 21.3 x64. Sometimes it does not work and display this error message:

not launching hack (throttled.)

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Is this an error that can be caught in the program and corrected?

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Snapshot created on: 20240406_1441
System:    Kernel: 6.3.0-2mx-ahs-amd64 [6.3.11-1~mx21ahs] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.3.0-2mx-ahs-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_x64 Wildflower June 18  2023 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20BHS04T05 v: ThinkPad W540 serial: <filter> 
           Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 20BHS04T05 v: 0B98401 Pro serial: <filter> UEFI-[Legacy]: LENOVO 
           v: GNET61WW (2.09 ) date: 02/18/2014 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 41.9/56.2 Wh (74.6%) volts: 12.3 
           min: 10.8 model: SANYO 45N1769 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus M705 
           serial: <filter> charge: 5% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4800MQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell 
           family: 6 model-id: 3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 28 cache: L2: 6 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 43098 
           Speed: 2675 MHz min/max: 800/3700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2675 2: 2369 3: 2656 4: 900 
           5: 2500 6: 2600 7: 1100 8: 2694 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations 
           Type: retbleed status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: 
           conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0416 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M] vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A alternate: nouveau 
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0ff6 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-3: Lite-On Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-12:4 
           chip-ID: 04ca:7035 class-ID: 0e02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3") 
           s-diag: 583mm (23") 
           Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") 
           diag: 394mm (15.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 
           compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio vendor: Lenovo 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0c0c class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8c20 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-3: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e1b class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.3.0-2mx-ahs-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-LM vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 5080 
           bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:153a class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl 
           port: 4000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:088f class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: nordlynx state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Centrino Bluetooth Wireless Transceiver type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
           bus-ID: 3-11:3 chip-ID: 8087:07da class-ID: e001 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0 
           sub-v: fc00 hci-v: 4.0 rev: 1ebd 
           Info: acl-mtu: 310:10 sco-mtu: 64:8 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 2.27 TiB used: 1.52 TiB (67.0%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 2B6Q scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 2B6Q scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 78.12 GiB size: 76.35 GiB (97.73%) used: 17.22 GiB (22.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 
           ID-2: /home raw-size: 1.74 TiB size: 1.71 TiB (98.37%) used: 1.24 TiB (72.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 9 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdb2 
           maj-min: 8:18 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 69.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 2921 
Repos:     Packages: 2336 note: see --pkg apt: 2318 lib: 1127 flatpak: 18 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ bullseye main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/megasync.list 
           1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/meganz-archive-keyring.gpg] https://mega.nz/linux/repo/Debian_11/ ./
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mxlinux.org/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mxlinux.org/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list 
           1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list 
           1: deb https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free #Opera Browser (final releases)
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial-added-by-mxpi.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list 
           1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/teamviewer-keyring.gpg] https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
Info:      Processes: 305 Uptime: 19h 23m wakeups: 50 Memory: 15.26 GiB used: 4.74 GiB (31.1%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)
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Re: xscreensaver sometimes fails  [Solved]

#2 Post by j2mcgreg »

xscreensaver is known to be buggy.Your best option is to uninstall it and if you want a similar function, install light-locker.
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Re: xscreensaver sometimes fails

#3 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Completely remove including config files, xfce4-screensaver, it's the combo of them both being present that messes stuff up IIRC.
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Re: xscreensaver sometimes fails

#4 Post by bitfikler »

Thank you for your answers and suggestions!

One question though: Where do I find the config files so I can delete them?

I have since lately xxxxxxx up the whole thing by entering wrong settings for GLtext and need to find where this setting is stored to be able to delete it...''

Looking forward to an answer. :)
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Re: xscreensaver sometimes fails

#5 Post by Charlie Brown »

Lads and Lasses: on MX-21 no xfce4-screensaver ootb (and "that" was/is the buggy one on MX-19 and 23). Also light-locker is already installed ootb on MX-21 :)
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Re: xscreensaver sometimes fails

#6 Post by figueroa »

xscreensaver has been a rolling disaster for a couple of years at least. (use apt-get purge xscreensaver)

If you were to remove xfce4-screensaver with the purge option (apt-get purge xfce4-screensaver), the configuration files will also be removed. However, left-behind configuration files will do no harm.

That said, xfce4-screensaver works fine in MX-23. I've been using it since it was ported to xfce4 from mate-screensaver. BTW, the autostart file is found in /etc/xdg/autostart/
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