Ubuntu
xscreensaver package

GL School and Photopile no longer work in 22.10 Frantic

Bug #1993915 reported by Ian
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Bug Description

Since upgrading - during which there was a message to close the xscreensaver daemon due to the change in the C libraries - two of these have stopped working here.

Not working:

  glschool ("crashed with SIGABRT")
  photopile ("crashed with SIGSEGV")

Working: all the rest (not tested BSOD, unicode, or webcollage - not installed)

The ones that aren't working show a red "crashed with SIGABRT" (glschool) or ".. SIGSEGV" (photopile) error message.

glschool will show ok in the small preview, but not full screen or activate. Other modules will happily access the pictures folder (eg GL Slideshow).

By coincidence, these are two of my four favourite modules...

Ubuntu MATE 22.10 updated from 22.04 (and back to whenever I got this PC)

dpkg says I have the following installed:

ii xscreensaver 6.02+dfsg1-2ubuntu1 amd64 Screensaver daemon and frontend for X11
ii xscreensaver-data 6.02+dfsg1-2ubuntu1 amd64 Screen saver modules for screensaver frontends
ii xscreensaver-data-extra 6.02+dfsg1-2ubuntu1 amd64 Extra screen saver modules for screensaver frontends
ii xscreensaver-gl 6.02+dfsg1-2ubuntu1 amd64 GL(Mesa) screen saver modules for screensaver frontends
ii xscreensaver-gl-extra 6.02+dfsg1-2ubuntu1 amd64 Extra GL(Mesa) screen saver modules for screensaver frontends

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Ian (superian) wrote :

With the nouveau drivers, GL School works as normal, but Photopile still SIGSEGVs.

Webcollage turns out to work with both.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

If this is still an issue (I believe 22.10 is not supported any longer), try launching the graphics manually:

/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/glschool

/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/photopile

And attach error messages and logs (Xorg.0.log if still using Xorg).

Changed in xscreensaver (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Ian (superian) wrote :

Alas, this was one of the prods to abandon Ubuntu MATE on this PC and go over to the MATE version of Linux Mint. Ubuntu MATE do MATE better than they do, but this wasn't the only annoyance that happened with 22.10.

I do have a couple of other machines still on Ubuntu MATE, but they're on the 22.04 LTS version that didn't have this bug.

I'll try a 23.10 live image and see if it's still happening.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for xscreensaver (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in xscreensaver (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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