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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >