Re: Weird X Problem
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:54:36AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: xscreensaver has a screensaver that downloads random images from the net... called web collage (or similar name)... could have been the screensaver? they all can be ran independently (they are just programs that xsreensaver run), so you might have one way or another run it... erik Could be, I guess. The strange think is that it did not restore the normal screen when I pressed keys or moved the mouse. Maybe it crashed or was hung for some reason and stopped responding. I have that screensaver installed; it called webcollage. I tried to run it and it generates black screen with fragments of images in it. So, it could be that. Ciao - FB
Weird X Problem
Hi all!
yesterday, I experienced a very weird problem with X : the background of
my Laptop become suddenly black, excepting two areas : one showed a fragment
of a picture with a dog in it ( only the head an part of the body ),
the other showed an half-schetched drawing which could be a dog, a penguin
o similar.
The weirdness of all this is that I don't have these pictures on my hard disk:
after the fact, I also made a 'find -name *.[jpg,jpeg,xpm] -exec display {}'
without finding them (apart from that, I am the only user of the laptop,
so I should know ).
Apart from that, X was still running and all the window stayed open,
except for the one showing a Netscape download, which aborted.
Since my laptop was attached to the Internet with a statical IP and
behind a proxy/gateway which does no firewall/filtering, I also thought
of an attack. I searched the obvious logs and such, but couldn't find
anything. I have no secrets on the laptop, so I'm not worried, but
I'd like to know what the heck happened.
I was running WindowMaker : exiting and restarting it restored normality.
I was running also xscreensaver, so it could be (I guess) a joke within it
(like the fake kernel crash screensaver) : only, it did not disappear when
I pressed keys or moved the mouse.
One last thing : I was downloading a fairly large file ( the Java SDK :
30 MB ) and my laptop small disk is nearly full. Wasn't for the weird
pictures, a file system full could have justified the thing ( except I
whas downloading the file in th /home partition, not in the /system one ).
That's all. I don't know what to think about. Suggestions ?
Ciao
-
FB
Re: Weird X Problem
xscreensaver has a screensaver that downloads random images from the
net... called web collage (or similar name)... could have been the
screensaver? they all can be ran independently (they are just programs
that xsreensaver run), so you might have one way or another run it...
erik
Francesco Bochicchio wrote:
Hi all!
yesterday, I experienced a very weird problem with X : the background of
my Laptop become suddenly black, excepting two areas : one showed a fragment
of a picture with a dog in it ( only the head an part of the body ),
the other showed an half-schetched drawing which could be a dog, a penguin
o similar.
The weirdness of all this is that I don't have these pictures on my hard disk:
after the fact, I also made a 'find -name *.[jpg,jpeg,xpm] -exec display {}'
without finding them (apart from that, I am the only user of the laptop,
so I should know ).
Apart from that, X was still running and all the window stayed open,
except for the one showing a Netscape download, which aborted.
Since my laptop was attached to the Internet with a statical IP and
behind a proxy/gateway which does no firewall/filtering, I also thought
of an attack. I searched the obvious logs and such, but couldn't find
anything. I have no secrets on the laptop, so I'm not worried, but
I'd like to know what the heck happened.
I was running WindowMaker : exiting and restarting it restored normality.
I was running also xscreensaver, so it could be (I guess) a joke within it
(like the fake kernel crash screensaver) : only, it did not disappear when
I pressed keys or moved the mouse.
One last thing : I was downloading a fairly large file ( the Java SDK :
30 MB ) and my laptop small disk is nearly full. Wasn't for the weird
pictures, a file system full could have justified the thing ( except I
whas downloading the file in th /home partition, not in the /system one ).
That's all. I don't know what to think about. Suggestions ?
Ciao
-
FB
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weird X problem
- Hi, I've an interesting X problem and I'm out of ideas. Any help much appreciated, TIA. Problem: I install any xlib-3.3-[ 5 ] (running hamm) and I can't startx as a user. I can if I specify full path to server (i.e. startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X) but then X apps won't start saying connection to server refused. Sounds like permissions to me but I can't work out where/which. I diffed the contents of xlib6-3.3-5 and -7 debs, diffed contents of /usr/X11R6 before and after xlib6 upgrade, checked setuid bit on X and nothing looks wrong to me. Yet downgrading xlib6 to 3.3-5 fixes it. Suggestions? -- Dimitri --- This is the official notification that I do not wish to receive any unsolicited commercial e-mail, so don't try. Or else. (Solicited advertisements huh? and other such can be sent to emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
