Re: [Gimp-user] Re: gimp and dead X
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 23:09:13 Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-03-23 at 2251.37 +): > > Unless you ran gimp as root there is nothing it can do that would harm > your > > system. (With the possible exception that it could get stuck in a loop > and > > spew out error messages untill you run out of disk space). > > It can also capture the pointer and "hang" the system (it is not hung, > just becomes "hostage"). Or trigger a bug somewhere else (window > manager, X or kernel). Netscape is famous for this. > I meant permenent harm to the system i.e something not cured by rebooting. If X gets looked up you can kill it with ctrl-alt-backspace (or if it just an application that has crashed you can kill it by typing "killall -KILL theNameOfTheApp", pressing the reset button should only be used as a last resort (i.e keyboard has locked up and you have no way of fixing the problem remotley) as this could (but you'd have to be pretty unlucky for it to) cause permenant damage to the system (and lose data). rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: gimp and dead X
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-03-23 at 2251.37 +): > Unless you ran gimp as root there is nothing it can do that would harm your > system. (With the possible exception that it could get stuck in a loop and > spew out error messages untill you run out of disk space). It can also capture the pointer and "hang" the system (it is not hung, just becomes "hostage"). Or trigger a bug somewhere else (window manager, X or kernel). Netscape is famous for this. > > Has anyone else experienced this, who may possibly be able to suggest a > > fix? When things go wrong in modern systems, my advice is to clean all possible temp files, like the ones in /tmp cos some systems (like X, GNOME, KDE, Sawfish, Esound, etc) create files there and if they are damaged, next boot becomes a pain. So there is a reason and a fix, you just have to find both. Uuum, btw, it starts in text mode, but allows you to use startx in a text console to get X up? If so, investigate deeply all files related to your DM (XDM, KDM, GDM, ie). GSR ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user