Ralph wrote: >.. >> Corollary: everything running within that X-instance is > toast. > > Well, that's where I must disagree. In every instance where > Mozilla got hosed, switching somewhere else then switching > back would show a Mozilla title bar on a blank window. This > Mozilla window continues to display correctly which leads me > to believe that Mozilla is still fine. > > It seems like something is stuck thinking that the icon I was > dragging is still in the drag process, even though it has > become detached from the mouse pointer.
I have seen both behaviors. Usually when the app-windows get blanked further mouse clicks seem to make things pregressively worse, until even the keyboard processing such as Ctrl Alt F1 fails. I do not recall reviving a system from the state you have. A few times, it has gone unresponsive for (say) a minute or so -- but not like yours. Your suspicions could be right, but it would take an accredited X-wizard to know how to do anything about it, I guess. The fact that a memory dump does NOT show your text remains a hint (to me) that your email message is no longer in the process's memory map. Your previous question of whether it might be UTF8-encoded would only disguise some characters -- most of the bytes would be common 7-bit ASCII, and unchanged in UTF8. It's possible that mozilla uses a 16bit internal encoding, I suppose. You might be able to test that in your second-X as another user. In my thunderbird dump I saw clearly readable text from my unsaved email. Of course, tbird and moz may use different internal encodings. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
