Re: defective GTK app crashes gnome

[kornelix <kornelix yahoo de>]

Only the gnome desktop is locked-up. If I get out with 
ctrl-alt-backspace then I can log in again.
I attached the offending app. Start it and click the "test" menu.
regards


Michael Torrie wrote:

> kornelix wrote:
>
> > I have saved a minimized version of a defective GTK app that locks up 
> > the gnome windowing system so that a reboot is required. Is anyone 
> > out there in GTK land interested, or is this old news?
>
>
> This is new news to me.  The only thing that I know of that would make 
> a machine lock up so as to require a reboot is a memory leak or some 
> obscure X11 bug.  Certainly nothing in GTK itself could directly crash 
> a computer.
>
> When the system locks up, is the computer still alive?  Can you ssh 
> into it, can you shut down the X server (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace)?  These 
> kind of locks you describe are either just a misunderstanding of what 
> is really locked up, or very very rare (I haven't heard of one in a 
> long time). Are you running nvidia binary graphics drivers by chance?
>
> Michael
>
>
> > regards
> >
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