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Re: aptitude locked



On Thursday 14 November 2002 06:52, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:13:10PM -0500, Seneca wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:08:08AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote:
> > > Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box.
> > > I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here.
> > > The whole display was very flickery and no
> > > application responded any more, though I saw, that
> > > gkrellm was still working. Even switching to a console (ALT-F1)
> > > did not succeed. I had the the X-screen still visible, jumping
> > > half a page to the left each time I hit a key.
> > > Had no luck in rebooting blindly.
> >
> > I've had that happen with X on my laptop. My standard method to attempt
> > to get out of that state is to return to X (I tend to have num lock on
> > in X, a useful indicator to show that I am at the right screen), wait
> > until the load on the system is lower, change to console. If the screen
> > looks either grey or normal, it worked (although grey needs the "reset"
> > command)
>
> I've had this happen a few times too.  Once you get to the
> 'screen-out-of-phase-by-half' stage, even the kernel is b0rked.  Magic
> sysrq doesn't work, so you're left with a hardware reset.

Can anyone of you confirm that this is due to xmms?
If so, I think there must be a severe bug anywhere,
if not, I think there is an even more severe bug out there.

- Michael

PS: I am still clueless how to procede with my aptitude lock.




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