RE: Instabilities in GDM

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

X does lock the console sometimes... but never the network. :)
If it is on a network, you can at least telnet in to shut it down.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Richard C. Thrapp [SMTP:richardt@owlnet.rice.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 31, 1999 2:58 PM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: Instabilities in GDM
> 
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ben Rockwood wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've found some problems with GDM... namely that once in a great
> > while when someone exsists their account and GDM brings X backup
> > for the gdgreeter, X will choke and the box hangs with no video.
> > This is the first way I've found to "crash" Linux.  If I had
> > a network I wouldn't worry about it, and I'd just telnet in and kill
> > the X server, but I don't.
> > 	Anyone found a work around?  Also, on the RHAD Labs page
> > acouple days ago someone (Dr.Mike Ithink) said he was cleaning up
> > and debugging GDM... is this one of the bugs?
> > 
> 
> I don't believe it's a gdm bug, but an X bug.  XFree86 seems to lock on
> startup occasionally on certain hardware.  (I have seen it more often with
> Matrox cards).  It's rare and it took many months before it happened to me
> the first time.  If you have XF86 3.3.2, try getting 3.3.3.  It seems to
> lock about half as much.  And I think the entire machine is locked - not
> just the video (if we have the same problem).  ctrl-alt-del doesn't work.
> 
> Does anyone know any more about this?
> 
> -- Richard Thrapp
> 
> 
> 
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