RE: that X/Gnome lockup thing. How to trace it?

[<swalker iglou com>]

I had this exact same problem on both my machines.

One laptop and one desktop machine.

Just a "me too" message

Steve

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:

> I had this problem the other day.
> 
> I run Helix gnome and installed the sawfish update via the helix updater.
> 
> 
> When it updated my X froze and the pc speaker was beeping 300bpm.
> 
> I could not move mouse at all, but I could tell from a couple of applets
> that the machine was infact still running (cpu, mem meters and clock still
> working, email counter updated with new mail and net trafic meter showing a
> down load.)
> 
> Unfortunatly I could not use the keyboard to activate a term and kill X so I
> had to pull the plug...  
> 
> Could there be something usefull in this that relates to the general lockups
> you are having?  What does the sawfish rpm do in it's scripts for example? 
> 
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