Paul Scott wrote: > > 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. >
Not really, but if you have the chance to, try to login via ssh and try to kill some X and gnome processes, or just restart gdm. This worked for me. It does not really fix the problem at all, but at least you won't have to hard-reset you machine (which is generally a bad idea). joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
