Black screen after screen saver

[Томица]

If screensaver is started on my computer, I can't get the display back again. No matter what I try, the screen remains black. All I can is hard restart computer to get it back to run. what can be the cause?

[Rexilion]

If you have the issue, check the following things:

output of the 'dmesg' command
content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Could be that the screensaver is making X / kernel unhappy?

[Томица]

Rexilion thanks for the reply. I'm afraid this didn't tell me much. I'm still not able to fix my issue.

[Rexilion]

No problem, I'll try to be more specific.

Please open a terminal and copy paste the following commands:

sudo dmesg
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Copy the output of the above commands, paste them at www.pastebin.com and place the returned link here. So we can inspect your system logs and see if you have issue's with the drivers.

[Томица]

Rexilion you're a star.

Here's the output of sudo dmesg, and here's the output of cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

I hope I didn't make any mistakes.

[Rexilion]

Do you know which screensaver you use?

The following command will confirm that (no sudo needed):

dpkg --get-selections | grep -i screen

[Томица]

Here's the output:

$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -i screen
gnome-screensaver				install
gnome-screenshot				install

[Rexilion]

Ok try this:

- Lock screen
- Press: Ctrl+Alt+F1
- Login as your normal user
-

killall gnome-screensaver

- Press: Ctrl+Alt+F7

If I'm correct, then after locking and doing the above. Your desktop should be visible again. That means we have narrowed it down to the screensaver.

[Томица]

Rexilion it seems to be fixed by some update. I think it's back to normal... Weird But thank you so much for your time and good will. Much appreciated!