Bug#258164: Bug#260981: /usr/bin/xine: crashed x windows

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>]

>> the tiny reset button!! rebooting!!

S> That's very odd. Have you tried pressing "f" to get out of fullscreen mode
S> or "q" to quit xine or right-click the xine logo to get a context menu?

I recall pressing all over the keyboard with no reaction.

S> Or what exactly do you mean by "freezes my whole terminal"?

Even ALT CTL F1 etc. didn't work. Same with alt ctl del, etc.

>> Would
>> # (sleep 200; killall xine)& xine -V XShm
>> have given me a fighting chance?

S> It should have, although I'd rather do it as
S> xine & sleep 200; killall xine

OK, but how can one abort if things turn out OK then instead of my:

>> (I could use
>> # kill $!
>> if xine turned out to be working.)

S> No you couldn't. xine would have to run in background for that, which it
S> doesn't in your case.

The kill $! is to abort "the timebomb that is about to kill xine", not xine.

S> Which Desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, XFCE?) are you running?

$ pstree
     `-xdm-+-XFree86-debug
           `-xdm---sh-+-icewm
                      |-sh---firefox-bin
                      |-sh---emacs-+-emacsserver
                      |            `-ispell
                      |-ssh-agent
                      `-xcin

S> Is the mouse still working?
No

S> What about the Num Lock key?
Probably not.
Screen frozen. Clock in corner frozen.
Don't let the XFree86-debug above fool you. I'm taking it off soon.
I'm in no position to test all of this. If any hardware breaks it will
entail a lengthy trip to the city.