Re: [dev] [slock] chown to root:root on install?

From: Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:54:28 +0100

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 02:44:26PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> Quoth Dimitris Papastamos:
> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> > > Separately to this, slock seems to exit (without prompt) after about
> > > 0.3s after I run it, unless I move the mouse or hit the keyboard
> > > directly after starting it. Has anyone else seen this? I could look
> > > into it more, but wonder if I am perhaps being stupid?
> >
> > Please provide a backtrace.
>
> I looked into it a bit more, and it turns out it is exiting with
> status 1; I double-checked and indeed it is returning from the
> "nothing to protect" condition.

I am not sure why, can you try to increase the timeout in the two
loops that grab the pointer/keyboard inside lockscreen()?

I suspect len is 0 and lock is set to NULL.
Received on Tue Sep 08 2015 - 15:54:28 CEST