Re: emit_event warning in GnomeCanvas

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:
> On 12/6/01 8:15 PM, "Michael Meeks" <michael peabody ximian com> wrote:
> 
> >       It's worth mentioning that switching to a console - C-M-F1,
> > logging in and a killall -9 gdb would release the grab more easily without
> > going to the pain of slaughtering all those innocent panel applets :-)
> > it's still unpleasant though.
> 
> I have done that many times. And it sometimes works. And other times it
> freezes my machine hard requiring a reboot. I wish I could figure out the
> rule for when it's a fatal mistake.

The freeze is probably an X server bug triggered by switching to/from
the virtual console. This at least historically is a bug in lots of
XFree servers.

Havoc