[gnome-love] a question from a humble user

[edson.caetano <edson caetano ig com br>]

Some days before,  i installed Ubuntu (hoary)in my laptop (Satellite 
2100->K6-2 400, 128Mb RAM, 13" LCD [2 Mb vram], 30GB disk), but this disk 
there was some bad sectors; even so i tried (the bad sectors was in the 
middle of the disk , at the 15Gb "region", so i partitioned to use only 
10GB), and i get the system run for some ... hours. :^\ Playing in internet 
with Firefox my system locked up, and i decided to reset the machine, back 
to the system, navigating internet and... locked again. I can´t certainly 
remember, but i suppose CTRL+ALt+F2 was used to verify if there was any 
message and for my surprise, by trying read a bad sector the system locked 
up, that was the problem. After this scenario my questions are 
a)would Gnome receive a message from kernel to inform the user a symptom 
like this one? 
b)would kernel close the Xwindow session and give to user a chance to read 
the console messages? (remember, my system was locked...only reset turns the 
system back). 

Regards.