From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: (I'm not sure which component caused this problem, of course, or even what my actual window manager process is under gnome. I'll describe as much as I can.) My entire X desktop locked up a few minutes ago. Unfortunately, I don't know what I did just before it locked up (I was moving back and forth between multiple computers), but it was probably nothing more than switching windows or virtual desktops. Symptoms were as follows: 1. First, the pointer was invisible. I moved the mouse around, trying to find it, but I could not. 2. Then, I tried to switch between windows with Alt-Tab, thinking that an app might have blanked out the cursor. The currently-selected- window box in the middle of the screen appeared as usual, and the heavy rectangle around the currently selected window appeared, but when I released Alt-Tab, the boxes did not go away and the window that should have been selected (Emacs) did not rise to the top and redraw. 3. All further X input events after that point produced no visible result. 4. Ctrl-Alt-F1 switched to VT 1 successfully. Switching back showed the same screen I'd seen before with one notable exception: the gnome-panel I have at the top of my screen was not visible. In its place was garbage data. 5. I switched back to VT 1 and tried kill -HUP <gnome-session pid>, hoping it might do something reasonable with a SIGHUP like restart the window manager. The X server restarted and returned to the login screen. Logging in again resulted in the same empty desktop I got when I first logged in after upgrading from Red Hat 9 to Fedora Core 2. Aside from that, everything seems to be working as usual. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.0-4 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. No clue. I don't recall doing anything I haven't done a thousand times before. Actual Results: Desktop locked up Expected Results: Um. Yeah. I guess I would expect the desktop not to lock up. Additional info:
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Hi, This bug is being closed because it has been in the NEEDINFO state for a long time now. Feel free to reopen the bug report if the problem still happens for you and you can provide any information that was requested.