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Pierre Frenkiel

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Dec 22, 2022, 8:20:05 AM12/22/22
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hi,
I have now a big problem with xscreensaver.
Up to yesterday, it worked perfectly, but I had to re-install Debian
on my PC, and now if fails
when I run "xscreensaver" I get:
xscreensaver-systemd: 13:59:54: user bus connection failed: No medium found
If I run "xscreensaver-demo", I get "Segmentation fault"
I was unable to find what changes from my previous install to the new one
can explain that.
Has anybody an idea?
best regards,

Pierre Frenkiel

Pierre Frenkiel

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Dec 22, 2022, 8:30:05 AM12/22/22
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Pierre Frenkiel

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Dec 22, 2022, 8:30:06 AM12/22/22
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Pierre Frenkiel

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Dec 23, 2022, 10:10:05 AM12/23/22
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Pierre Frenkiel
I found a good work around: instead of calling xscreensaver, I call
one on the binaries provided with the program: scooter
and that works perfectly
I'm just curious to understand why the xscreensaver itself no more works...

operation.priv...@mailbox.org

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Dec 25, 2022, 3:30:05 PM12/25/22
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Try 'xscreensaver-demo &exit'. It will ask to restart a non running
xscreensaver service. Try to purge xscreensaver packages and reinstall
them again.
'sudo apt-get purge xscreensaver* ; sudo apt-get install xscreensaver
xscreensaver-data-extra'

debia...@howorth.org.uk

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Dec 25, 2022, 5:00:05 PM12/25/22
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> Try 'xscreensaver-demo &exit'.

Err that runs xscreensaver-demo and then immediately exits from the
terminal session that starts it. I'm not sure why you'd want to do that?

> It will ask to restart a non running
> xscreensaver service.

No it won't!
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