Screensave/ Lock Screen

[kovax]

Has anyone seen this before? I log in as my userid and i have a few temrminal sessions open. I am also running vmware workstation. What seems to happen is that if I am logged in for a long time my screensaver will not kick in. Also, if i am walking away if i try to lock my machine not thing happens.
I am running Red Hat 9.

Thanks

[Void Main]

If you go into your screensaver preferences can you do a "Preview" on any of the screensavers?

[kovax]

I can not preview them either.

[Void Main]

What sort of error do you get when you try and run xscreensaver at a shell prompt?

[kovax]

xscreensaver: 14:27:07: could not execute "xscreensaver-demo": No such file or directory
xscreensaver: 14:27:07: 0: child pid 5258 (xscreensaver-demo) exited abnormally (code 1).

[Void Main]

What is the output of "rpm -qa | grep xscreensaver"?

[kovax]

I get no output from the following command.

[Void Main]

Sounds like a good reason why it's not working. You need to install the xscreensaver RPM:

http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/fedo ... 2.i386.rpm

[kovax]

rpm -ivh xscreensaver-4.07-2.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
xloadimage is needed by xscreensaver-4.07-2

[Void Main]

So install xloadimage. If you had apt installed it would have installed that automatically when you did an "apt-get install xscreensaver".

[Master of Reality]

or you could use "yum install xscreesaver"

[Void Main]

or you could use "yum install xscreesaver" :P

Except he would have to install it first just like he would have to install apt first and point to the legacy repositories. Remember, he's working with RedHat 9 which is 6 releases old. Yum didn't come until a few releases after RH9. Personally I would just upgrade the machine to FC5 if I were him and be done with it. :) I was just answering the questions and figured he might have have a real good reason not to upgrade.

If he did want to install apt or yum he can can check this out:

Fedora Legacy apt howto:
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/docs/apt-rh9.php
Fedora Legacy yum howto:
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/docs/yum-rh9.php

[Calum]

there's nothing wrong with red hat 9.

it's interesting how quickly linux advocates forget that one of the huge plus points about linux distributions *used* to be that there was no forced upgrade cycle like there is with other operating environments...

[Master of Reality]

id say apt, yum, or smartpm is definately worthwhile to install on red hat though. Theres nothing like the automatic dependency checking and such.

[Calum]

i agree, apt (and synaptic perhaps) are the first thing you should install on a system that you can install them on. and whatever you can get from apt-get update && apt-get upgrade is the next thing you should install!