RE: gnome/X not taking keys, hard reboot necessary

[Hugo Gayosso <hgayosso gnu org>]

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I pressed left and right buttons "like a wild monkey" (even with a banana in
the hand), and nothing happened, except that the sawmill configuration menu
appeared (it was supposed to do so.).


sawmill-0.25.2-1
gnome-libs-1.0.56-1
gnome-core-1.1.5-1


On 17-Mar-2000 Poletti, Don wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> Sun had a bug like this filed once.  Let me see if I can find 
>> that real
>> quick... Ah, here is it
>> 
>> > From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
>> > "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."
>> 
>>
> 
> haha.
> 
> 1) No amount/type of user input should crash the system. Its just
> bad programming if it does.
> 
> 2) It didn't take much. I tried to simulate the middle mouse buttone
> and nothing happened so I assumed I did not the keys simultaneously so 
> I did it 2 more times. A total of 6 mouse clicks, result hard reboot. Any
> windows users would laugh his ass off if linux/X/Gnome turns out to be
> this easy to crash.
> 
> 
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