Re: lock-ups

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jim Hughes <jeem@nettaxi.com> writes:
> 
> Three times today I've had complete freezes while using
> Gnome/X1186/Linux.  I'm using Mandrake 7.02 with Helixcode Gnome.  I
> added the Helix stuff a couple of days ago, and didn't have any lockups
> before then.  When these freezes happen they are complete:  no mouse
> response or keyboard response,  including ctrl-alt-bckspc, ctrl-alt-f1,
> etc.
> 
> Is this a know issue?  Can someone loan me a clue?
> 

If X totally locks it's either an X server bug or a kernel bug. Helix
GNOME might do something to trigger it, but who knows what it
is. Could be anything.

Havoc