On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 12:53, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > After I switched to using Vanilla IceWM, the strange screen and keyboard > lockup has occured three time already. So far, it happened with KDE 2.2.2, > GNOME 1.4.x and Vanilla IceWM 1.0.9. I find it hard to believe that all of > them have a similar bug, especially vanilla icewm.
Such lockups are sometimes caused by applications which request the X display to grab the keyboard / mouse but forget to release it. Of course, once those applications shutdown (and disconnect from the X display), their "grabbing" is released. You can use the Magic-SysRq feature in the kernel to get out of those "lockups". If Magic-SysRq is enabled, use Alt-SysRq-R to release the keyboard, then switch to another virtual console (via Alt-Ctrl-F1) and then I login via the console and kill the offeding X applicaiton. (to make sure you have Magic-SysRq enabled, make sure /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq contains '1') Of course I don't really help you solve the issue, except that you might narrow down the offender. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
