A curious and rare (2 times since Etch became stable) X freeze or hang has me wondering what to do.
Problem: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement and running apps update normally on-screen in visible windows (gkrellm, gaim, etc). What happened: Viewing email message in icedove, right-click to save image from the email, no response to mouse clicks, mouse wheel or keyboard input, but mouse cursor movement appears normal. icedove continues to fetch new mail on schedule. The identical symptoms happened once before while composing in icedove. Ssh from another box to examine: Nothing unusual in /var/log. Kill the icedove processes. Screen shows icedove closing, then switches to VT1 apparently from a queued earlier attempt. Keyboard now accepts ctrl-alt-F7 back to X, but again is frozen to all input in X! Just as it was before killing icedove. >From ssh: Restarted gdm. All is normal. This last line in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old is the only thing I could find that looked different: FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. Window manager is openbox. Has anyone experienced this behavior? Any ideas? (Next time I'll remember to check .xsession-errors.) Thanks, Ralph Katz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
