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Mac Forum / General / General / June 2006Problem: when my computer go to screensaver
Once in a while, our 350MHz G3 iMac gets black screen instead of any screen saver. When that happens, we can't get it back. It isn't "sleeping" and actually we can get it back by remotely logging in and carefully killing certain processes. I don't think it's hardware because 90% of the occurrences are one one login account. OS 10.3.9  SignatureWes Groleau He that complies against his will is of the same opinion still. -- Samuel Butler, 1612-1680 > Once in a while, our 350MHz G3 iMac gets black screen instead of any > screen saver. When that happens, we can't get it back. It isn't [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > OS 10.3.9 Hmmm...I think a while back there was one particular screen saver I had to stop using because of that. Does it happen with all the screen savers, or just a specific one? Some of them are more memory-demanding than others. SignatureAF "Non Sequitur U has a really, really lousy debate team." --artyw raises the bar on rec.sport.baseball > Hmmm...I think a while back there was one particular screen saver I had > to stop using because of that. Does it happen with all the screen > savers, or just a specific one? Some of them are more memory-demanding > than others. When all you have is black, there's no way to identify in 'ps -aux' which one it was. SignatureWes Groleau I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS. -- Larry DeLuca > > Hmmm...I think a while back there was one particular screen saver I had > > to stop using because of that. Does it happen with all the screen [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > When all you have is black, there's no way to identify in 'ps -aux' > which one it was. Huh? I selected a screen saver. It caused problems. So I selected a different one. SignatureAF "Non Sequitur U has a really, really lousy debate team." --artyw raises the bar on rec.sport.baseball >> When all you have is black, there's no way to identify in 'ps -aux' >> which one it was. > > Huh? > I selected a screen saver. It caused problems. So I selected a different > one. They're all available (random). Yes, of course I can cut back to one and wait three weeks to see whether nothing happens. Which I will likely do. Was just hoping someone knew something to save me the time. Alan Baker wrote: > Try turning on "Remote Login" under the Sharing preference pane. Then > provided the machine isn't completely hung, you can ssh into it and > see what's going on... As I said, remote login is how I do the 'ps -aux' It tells me the PID of the screensaver, but not which screensaver it is. Nor does it say why it does that. Unfortunately, though, killing the screen saver doesn't give you back your display. The only way to avoid reboot is to kill most of the processes of the logged in user. On Solaris with CDE, the lockscreen/screensaver process could be killed by root and everything else would be immediately usable at the machines local keyboard/display. I suppose one could call what happens here a security feature, but I suspect "coincidence" would be more accurate. :-) SignatureWes Groleau Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow > >> When all you have is black, there's no way to identify in 'ps -aux' > >> which one it was. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > your display. The only way to avoid reboot is to kill most of the > processes of the logged in user. Have you looked through the various log files to see if there's anything informative? SignatureAF "Non Sequitur U has a really, really lousy debate team." --artyw raises the bar on rec.sport.baseball > Have you looked through the various log files to see if there's anything > informative? Nothing that shouts "Screensaver" There are a few graphics related things, but they're all during boot up. Some of them don't quite shout, but raise their voice a little to say "Somebody at Apple is lazy" SignatureWes Groleau Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. -- Robert A. Heinlein > > Hmmm...I think a while back there was one particular screen saver I had > > to stop using because of that. Does it happen with all the screen [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > When all you have is black, there's no way to identify in 'ps -aux' > which one it was. Try turning on "Remote Login" under the Sharing preference pane. Then provided the machine isn't completely hung, you can ssh into it and see what's going on... |
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