Eric & Rosi & Jonathon wrote:
> I've been running Linux for 2 months now (used unix fairly often
> before). While most of it is rock-solid as people claim, I've had
> K-package and sometimes K-help totally freeze up the system. I am
> unable to use Ctrl-Escape , Ctrl-Alt-Del (coded to shutdown on my PC),
> or X-kill (If I can see the icon for X-kill, it is shadowed out and
> inactive. When I hit this case, is there any options left besides
> power-off and see how much got broken??? My current system is to just
> not use those 2 apps (And I also avoid using KFM to write to a windows
> drive more than one at a time, killed me there to).
>
> So, for these apps which seem to be killing me, is there anything I can
> do to save the rest of them, or should I keep with my current avoidance
> policy?
>
> Thanx
> Eric Aksomitis
> http://www.dlcwest.com/~jed/re_answer.shtml
>
> BTW, it's Linux mandrake-6.0, KDE 1.1.2, all applicable upgrades
> applied, no other majour modifications (although I am downloading
> Mandrake 6.1 image right now over the phone line, 8 Hours to go!!)
I have observed this behavior to a limited extent when logged into KDE as
root. The serial ports and NICs were still working, so I was able to
telnet in and shutdown from there. After that, I decided to leave 6.0
with KDE 1.1.1 and 6.1 with KDE 1.1.2. In those combinations, the only
freezes I get are with KDE 1.1.1 in kfm if running as root where I can
reliably repeat crashed by grabbing and moving the slider bar while kfm is
working on the icon display or on displaying a web site.
The depth of the detail of that bug is beyond any time I have available.
I am still looking for time to hack on lilo for mkbootdisk to work on
LS120 floppies.
Civileme
