Segmentation Fault in xscreensaver
 

Hi All,

So I'm having a problem that I'm pretty sure has an easy answer, but I can't find it. I'm getting a segmentation fault when I try to run xscreensaver-demo. The screensaver itself works fine, but when I try to select it from the gnome menu (in RH9) it crashes with a segmentation fault. Of course it does this silently, but if I try to run it from a terminal I can see what's going on. Sometimes it won't even start it up, other times it starts, but if I try to change anything it will crash.

The odd part is that it only does this in MY user account. Other accounts on the system work just fine. I suspect that somewhere in my config files something is letting (forcing?) xscreensaver-demo try to access RAM it isn't supposed to, but I'm not sure what. I've taken a look at the .xscreensaver config file, but don't really know what I'm looking for.

I didn't have this problem when I was running RH8. Then I did an upgrade to RH9 (not a fresh install, but an upgrade) and started having the problem. I also had some other problems so I did a fresh install of RH9 which cleared up the other problems, but left me with this one. My /home directory is on a separate partition, and during the fresh install, I did not have it format that partition (otherwise I would have lost all my data and settings which generally falls under the "that is bad" category). My guess is that the upgrade did something that causes the crash, and the fresh install then didn't fix it because it is in my /home directory? Why then is it not a problem for other users?

Nothing shows up on the system log, I checked the xscreensaver home page with no success, and a search on Google and on LQ didn't turn up anything (well ok, they turned up discussions of what segmentation faults are, but nothing that helped me solve the problem).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

All the best,