Help! E/Gnome system crash

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight mindspring com>]

On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:14:22 Aaron Prohaska wrote:

> So with that done I typed startx and waited to see what happened. Well
> to my surprise it worked. I was very happy to have it running. I went
> right away to playing around with settings and changing the colors and
> themes which I liked very much. I noticed two things that were happening
> while doing this. Moving windows around was slow and when I went to the
> dialogs option in the control-center the hard drive starting being
> wildly accessed. This lasted for about 2-4 minutes and then stopped.
> After that happened everything in E/Gnome became very slow and
> impossible to deal with. I logged out at that point and restarted it.
> Once restarted it behaved fine foe a while. So again I proceeded to
> start playing with settings again. Only this time everything completely
> locked up! I don't remember exactly what I was doing at the time since
> it was late last night, but it killed the whole system. 

I've seen this several times with the latest Gnome CVS dist here.  So far,
it looks like it doesn't happen here when running without "esd".  You might
try doing a "killall esd" after logging into Gnome to see if that makes things
more stable.

It looks like a kernel bug of some sort, so maybe an upgrade to the latest kernel
would be a good idea as well (I'm still at 2.2.1).

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