Re: problem with 7.1 (2.4.3 & 2.4.2 kernels)

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:17:38 -0700 (PDT) Gordon Messmer
<yinyang eburg com> imparted to us:

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, ABrady wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Gordon Messmer
> > <yinyang eburg com> imparted to us:
> >
> > Are these machines runing X most or all of the time?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Do you run xscreensaver on them?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> However, they normally lock up when I'm *using* them, not when the
> screen
> saver is active.
> 
> The last time my home workstation locked, I had clicked the icon to
> start
> mozilla, and was doing something with an open terminal (I might have
> right-clicked on a URL, waiting for mozilla to open).  After a moment,
> drive activity halted, and so did everything else.
> 
> The last lockup in my work workstation was earlier today.  My coworker
> commented that if he could use the keyboard to move windows, then he'd
> probably never use the mouse.  I remarked back that you *can* move
> windows
> in sawfish using the keyboard and proceeded to try to set it up. 
> While
> testing the keyboard, the mouse stopped.
> 
> Both of these were hard locks.  No CTRL+ALT+F1, or CTRL+ALT+Backspace.
>  No
> reply to pings.  Nothing.  Dead.  :(

OK, have you tried it with a desktop other than sawfish? Have you tried
dumping some of the gnome apps (I had some problems like this but, not
wuite the same with nautilus)?

Many gnome-related apps have done similar things to me, anything from
hard lockups to what seemed to be hard lockups but only lasted a few
minutes/hours. Not blaming gnome per se. It may actually be a combo of
some gnome apps and some libraries mixed on the system.

In other words. I don't have any brilliant insight. But I've had some
things happen somewhat like this and these are the things I traced it to
on MY boxen.

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