Ralph wrote: >.. > I knew the freeze had something to do with dragging an icon > from a gnome panel. Yet, ps wasn't showing anything newer > than Mozilla on that X. So I was certain it had to do with > something that was already running before Mozilla. > > I pulled several blocks before I came down to the one I > thought it would be. I have three gnome panels. And three > gnome panels are listed in ps: > rafael 3132 1 3132 0 3 May10 ? Ssl 0:23 > gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2rafael 3132 1 3163 > 0 3 May10 ? Ssl 0:01 gnome-panel --sm-client-id > default2rafael 3132 1 3606 0 3 May10 ? Ssl > 0:00 gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2 > > I just had no idea which one was freezing it up. And what I > read about gnome panels was that at least one was necessary. > If it turned out to be the top one that was freezing it, then > I would have been screwed I think (unless killing it would > automatically restart it). > > Well, I killed the bottom one, and VIOLA!!! X on F7 is now > completely responsive again. And what's more, it appears that > all the things that I killed came back. > > The best part is that the email I was composing is still there > and ..., now it is saved. >.. > I am SOOOOO stoked right now! Unbelievable!!! > > (I just *knew* that Mozilla was not hung!) > > (I guess sometimes it just takes a liberal mix of bravado and > naivete.)
Congratulations! Your first suspicions/inclinations seem to have been right-on. It may have been not a panel icon being dragged, but the panel itself. <I think> Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
