Description of Problem: I had mounted a cdrom and wanted to look at a plain ascii text file which, however, had a name ending with .pgm. I tried to open it from the file manager of the gnome desktop. Normally, I get a tree with a long list of programs I can choose from to open it. With this file, I got no choice at all. Immedieately, a window for "electric eyes" , (or "redeye"? ; I was too much shocked to read carefully) with the picture of a big eye appeared. The computer locked up. I t did not respond to anything. I had to turn off the computer. When I restarted it, the icon for the cdrom was gone. All attempts to restore it failed. However, I can still use the cdrom if I mount it from the command line. Since I don't really need the icon, I don't need a fix for the program. However, I would appreciate any suggestions how to get rid of "electric eyes" or "red eye", because I don't want to get into such a situation again. Hans Joksch Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: I don't dare to try it again. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
Lockup was an X server bug of some kind. Otherwise not a bug, .pgm is usually an image file extension... you could do Open With to open with another app.
The computer locking up is not necessarily an X server problem. More likely to be a hardware problem or kernel problem. This bug report lacks sufficient detail to conclude wether it is a hardware issue, kernel issue, XFree86 issue or something else. Closing as NOTABUG as there is insufficient data. If the problem still exists now in the current release of Red Hat Linux 7.3, please open a new bug report and attach all relevant details, config files, log files, etc. and attached to the appropriate software component in bugzilla.