Ubuntu
xscreensaver package

  1. Bug #609451
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 609451

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David Litster (mrlitsta) wrote :

I am also having this problem on two machines. One is a laptop with an s3 unichrome adapter, one is a desktop machine with an Nvidia 8400GS. I don't think the gfx card is the problem, but something with the open() call that xscreensaver-getimage is doing. I can list the directories from the shell and thunar just fine.

Something is getting a filename to xscreensaver-getimage to send to the screensaver renderer:
xscreensaver-getimage: file does not exist: "/media/evectra/evectra/Media/Pictures/2008/East Coast Trip, May/Boston Freedom Trail/IMG_1680.JPG"

The laptop exhibited this behavior in Ubuntu 9.10. so I upgraded it to 10.04, same problem.
The desktop is at 10.10

The files are coming from a remotely mounted windows share hosted on a Windows Vista SP2 machine.

I did do a workaround once that involved setting up a VM, mounting the windows share on the VM, then NFS mounting the VM directory on the glslideshow machines, but that is a bit ridiculous.

What other details can I provide that would be useful?