I was in the terminal the other day and I was trying something. I typed xstart (I was already in x) And everything froze up, I could not log out I couldn't open any programs, I was wondering if this was a bug or not, e mail me and tell me if it was please, thank you, sincerly Josh Mcdonald
Not following you here. Do you mean that you were in X and you typed "startx" again? This should not lock up the system, but there is that possibility. You should actually get an error telling you that there is already an Xserver running on display 0.
Nope, I never got a error message, I closed out of the terminal and I went to open a program and it wouldn't let me so I went to log out and I could click on it but it wouldn't do anything so basically it all locked up and yes I was in X already and I forgot what I was trying to accomplish by hitting startx but I did it and that happened. Sincerly, Josh Mcdonald (aka. CyBeR PhReAk)
By any chance had you dialed up to your ISP in the mean time of this happening?? In other words, did you go into X, dial up to your ISP, then try opening other windows and logging out of the system??
I believe I did dial my ISP first and then afterwards I went and tryed to start X again and it locked up the system.
Problem was reverse name conflict with CORBA, which was preventing user from being able to execute applications after dialing up to ISP.