Re: Gnome locks frequently

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Art Ross <aross skyenet net> writes:
> I've put up with this problem for awhile.  What happens if Gnome will
> lockup on me for no apparent reason.  The only way out of this situation
> is to cylce the power on the PC case.
> 
> For awhile I thought that I could avoid the problem by logging in
> starting Gnome.  This seemed to lower the frequency of the lockups so I
> ignored the issue.
> 
> Well, I've finally become frustrated enough to seek help.
> 

If you need a power cycle GNOME isn't locking up; it's either X or the
kernel that's at fault. So you want to be looking at those instead of
GNOME for a solution.

Havoc