Ralph wrote: >..referring to the > email that I was composing. That one is *not* yet stored in a > file somewhere.
Well, I did an experiment (although with thunderbird, not mozilla), and a non-saved mail did show up in a core dump. If your dump does not show text you expect to see, it may be that whatever went wrong resulted in the memory being released (unmapped). You could try a similar experiment in your _another-user in another-X environment_. > > The way the system is unresponsive yet Mozilla still seems to > be happy, I imagine that *if* it had frozen while Mozilla was > downloading my email, I think that Mozilla would have > continued and finished. It seems as though the system is > stuck in the middle of the process of dragging an icon. The > clock continues, among other signs of life. I would guess that _something_ went so wrong that internal data got corrupted in X's event handler. All bets are probably off, and it is unlikely that anything can get "unstuck" -- <sigh> :-( The dragging-the-icon operation would be worth repeating and trying to find a crash-recipe. One possibility is that you may discover a bug that has already been fixed in a later fedora -- X, kernel, mozilla (..etc). Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
