Re: Fish swimming over my Desktop and ... system locked ?!?
HEH, i have seen it too, but my system didnt hang. i think it has to do with wanda the gnomefish...
-martin
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Martin Emrich wrote:
> Hi All !
>
> Today, something _really_ weird happened on my computer:
>
> I was writing some tex file in emacs, and suddenly, a little blue Fish
> swam over my Display (no, I dont work underwater ;)
> It looked similar to the one in this Fish-Applet for GNOME Panel.
> After it stopped halfway between the upper-left corner and the center of
> the Screen, my system hang. Only the mouse was moveable, but no Keyboard
> Functions worked (no CTRL-ALT-F1, no CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, no
> CTRL-ALT-DELETE). As I was not at home, I had no other computer
> available to telnet, so I was forced to push the "reboot-and-do-fsck"
> button...
>
> My System:
>
> Sony Notebook P3-450
> Debian potato, upgraded to testing, then upgraded to unstable (AFAIK you
> call this "sid")
> Gnome 1.4
> Xfree86 4.1.0
> Kernel 2.4.16
>
> IIRC I was running only xemacs, 2 terminals and xdvi.
>
> Does anybody know what this fish does ? I have no screensaver enabled,
> and I was working all the time.
> And don't tell me to do google "fish" :>
>
> Martin
>
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