Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.45+dfsg1-2 Severity: important I took the habit of running "xscreensaver-command -suspend" when leaving my desk. However, after ten(s of) seconds, xscreensaver unblanks and shows the password prompt screen. After timeout, it blanks again, and after some time, unblanks again, in a never-ending cycle. This keeps the screens on a cycle of going into sleep and waking up.
My first guess was that random mouse movements were above xscreensaver's ignore threshold; however, an "xev" window having the focus shows no event at all for minutes as long as I don't touch mouse or keyboard. Killing the "xscreensaver-systemd" process fixed it. Being an always-running desktop, it is never suspended, so from reading its man page, I gather xscreensaver-systemd doesn't do anything useful for that particular machine. Let me know what else I can do to help debug the problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=fr_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages xscreensaver depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.60 ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2 ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u2 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.18-4 ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.33-2 ii libpam0g 1.4.0-9+deb11u1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.46.2-3 ii libsystemd0 247.3-6 ii libx11-6 2:1.7.2-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1.1 ii libxi6 2:1.7.10-1 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-2 ii libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2+b3 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1 ii libxt6 1:1.2.0-1 ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.4-1+b2 ii xscreensaver-data 5.45+dfsg1-2 Versions of packages xscreensaver recommends: ii gsfonts-x11 0.27 ii libjpeg-turbo-progs 1:2.0.6-4 ii perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u2 ii wamerican [wordlist] 2019.10.06-1 ii wamerican-huge [wordlist] 2019.10.06-1 ii wbritish-huge [wordlist] 2019.10.06-1 ii wcanadian-huge [wordlist] 2019.10.06-1 ii wfrench [wordlist] 1.2.6-1 ii wngerman [wordlist] 20161207-9 ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.4+nmu1.1 Versions of packages xscreensaver suggests: ii chromium [www-browser] 90.0.4430.212-1 ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 78.15.0esr-1~deb11u1 ii fortune-mod [fortune] 1:1.99.1-7.1 pn gdm3 | kdm-gdmcompat <none> ii lynx [www-browser] 2.9.0dev.6-3~deb11u1 pn qcam | streamer <none> ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3+git20210102-6 ii xdaliclock 2.44+debian-2 ii xfishtank 2.5-1+b1 pn xscreensaver-data-extra <none> pn xscreensaver-gl <none> pn xscreensaver-gl-extra <none> -- no debconf information
