Could that be more convoluted? In order to fix my already-posted-about problem with ripping CD's, I finally upgraded from kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7 to kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7. It worked -- paranoia can read CD's again.
Unfortunately, the first time I ran jpilot, X froze solidly. No mouse movement, no reaction to any keyboard input including ctrl-backspace, ctrl-alt-Fn, and ctrl-alt-del, no nothing. I had to use the reset button. Same thing the SECOND time I ran jpilot. As long as I didn't actually try to sync, no problem. That is, the program can sit open as long as it doesn't try to communicate with the Palm device. So I tried kpilot. Same thing. It took longer to freeze -- over a minute vs. seconds. (The sync was long because it was the first time kpilot had run, so it had to do a full backup.) By this time I had installed telnetd so I could connect via my laptop and just kill X rather than reboot. Except I couldn't. Even kill -9 wouldn't stop either X or xdm. Kpilot froze during an AvantGo sync. If I use malsync (command-line AvantGo sync) in a VT, no freeze. It's clearly a bug, but I'm torn between reporting it for XFree86 and xPilot. No application should be able to freeze X so badly it can't be killed. (At all, really, but surely not so badly it can't be killed.) I tend to think it isn't a USB bug (I use USB sync) because my USB mouse and ifp continue to work fine with the new kernel, but I welcome other opinions. In fact, I welcome any advice on how to further debug this before bothering the maintainers with possibly-misaimed bug reports. BTW, why did I use telnetd? Because I can't seem to make a ssh connection to my tower from the laptop. I just get refusals from my laptop ssh client, while the "VERBOSE" logging on the tower shows nothing whatever after the "connect from" message. PAM problem? Who knows? I thank you for reading this far. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
