Re: x11/xscreensaver 2026Q1 locks and no login

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 28 de septiembre de 2026 18:56:04 CEST, Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> escribió:
>On Mon 28 Sep 2026 at 13:07:28 +0200, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
>> In Spanish, Saturday is "Sábado" and Sunday is "Domingo". These days
>> appear on the xscreensaver login screen as "Sáb" and "Dom". Could the
>> accented character in "Sáb" somehow be causing the malfunction? Could
>> this be a locale-related problem?
>
>If you're right and it relates to the accented character, the new
>stricter ctype(3) functions in 11.0 could cause screensaver-related
>programs to exit when trying to process such a character with a ctype
>function in an incorrect way (which is unfortunately very common).
>
>If your problem indeed reoccurs on wednesday, you could try restarting
>the screensaver with LIBC_ALLOWCTYPEABUSE=nonempty in its environment
>(see ctype(3)) and see if it makes a difference. If yes, you found the
>cause.
>
>-Olaf.

Hi Olaf,

Thanks so much. At the moment is just a guess. Waiting for wednesday to see whether it fails and test the ctypeabuse!

Regards.
Ramiro.