Bug 62882 - screen locked at gui login
Summary: screen locked at gui login
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gdm
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-07 00:32 UTC by Gerry Tool
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:41 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-11-01 21:34:24 UTC
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Description Gerry Tool 2002-04-07 00:32:46 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4)
Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1

Description of problem:
When I log out to log in as another user, the login screen appears and freezes

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.log out of either KDE or Gnome
2.try to login again
3.
	

Actual Results:  Screen displays with mouse cursor dead in center of screen. 
Clock is moving, and cursor is blinking in username input box.  No response to
keyboard or mouse.  Have to hit reset to reboot the computer.  Cannot access
another terminal window.

Expected Results:  mouse and keyboard should be useable to log back in.

Additional info:

Has happened twice out of 4 or 5 tries.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-04-09 11:10:33 UTC
Sounds reasonably likely to be a stuck server grab. You couldn't get to 
a virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+F1?

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-07-02 23:29:25 UTC
Probably no longer applies to Rawhide, but would need confirmation.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-12-20 01:40:11 UTC
Please reopen if still present in 8.0


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