Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)
Hi,
I just had something scary (to me) happen. I was in X (with Gnome)
working on my favorite LT WinModem problem. I was running Gnome Termnal
and GnomePad+. Potato 2.2.19pre17 with all other packages from the same
official CD image D/L'd.
As I was trying to find help with why I couldn't open a hidden file in
GnomePad+ I clicked on something, Gnome Terminal seemed to get the focus
with an I-Beam cursor (from GnomePad+ ?) and I had the symptoms of a
classic MS Windoze lockup. The mouse was dead. I could not open a
virtual terminal. I could not shut down X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
Ctrl-Alt-Del did nothing.
I reset my CPU, rebooted to Linux and went to /var/log to see what I
could see. I don't yet know what logs to look for but sorting by time
seemed to only leave debug as relevant. This is the only line in the
time vicinity:
Aug 15 00:52:29 joy gnome-name-server[629]: server_is_alive:
cnx[IDL:help_browser/simple_browser:1.0] = (nil)
Any clues or suggestions of what to read would be appreciated.
TIA,
Paul Scott
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