On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> can someone in the know give me any hints as to what to do about some
> software that locks the computer. everytime i run the gnome-terminal,
> it locks the computer so that nothing works except for a hard reset. i
> have tried reinstalling gnome-core*.rpm by overwriting or deleting and
> then reinstalling. i am also having trouble with some of the
> screensavers that lock up the system as soon as they start. is there
> something i can do about it? deleting and reinstalling doesnt do it.
> would recompiling help? why is it locking my machine but not others? i
> have checked my system logs and nothing is mentioned about the offending
> software. i am running 6.1.
>
Please give us some information about your system:
1) Free drive space
2) Memory (free and total)
3) Hardware -- processor, video card, motherboard/chipset, etc
4) SCSI or IDE
5) Anything else even remotely relevant!
As a suggestion....if you have another machine handy, try telnetting
to your "locked" machine (or get and install SSH if you don't want to
leave Telnet open) and issue the reboot command remotely.
John
