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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - My wife can't lock her screen.
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:24:22
Message-Id: 200612121419.54976.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT - My wife can't lock her screen. by Michael Sullivan
1 On Tuesday 12 December 2006 03:29, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2
3 > When we tried to run gnome-screensaver from the terminal, we get this:
4 >
5 > catherine ~ # gnome-screensaver
6 >
7 > (gnome-screensaver:26789): gnome-screensaver-WARNING **: failed to
8 > register with the message bus
9 >
10 > Any hints?
11
12 For good measure:
13
14 # emerge -uaDv dbus hal
15
16 Then:
17
18 # /etc/init.d/dbus start
19 # /etc/init.d/hald start
20
21 Then:
22
23 # rc-update -a dbus default
24 # rc-update -a hald default
25
26 Then try again to start xscreensaver. Reboot to make sure you get no boot
27 errors.
28
29 HTH.
30 --
31 Regards,
32 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - My wife can't lock her screen. [SOLVED] Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>