Hi all,
I don't know if this is an FVWM problem, or somewhere else. But since it only
seems to impact the GUI, I thought I'd try here first.
My system: AMD64FX51, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB HD, NVIDIA video card, Mandrake 9.2
(official) for AMD64, fvwm 2.5.9. fvwm 2.5.9 was re-compiled for 64 bit.
The symptom: Everything seems to be humming along fine, when suddenly my
interaction with Mozilla stops working. At this point, the only thing that
responds is the mouse and the "Num Lock" key (causes the LED to toggle). The
Caps Lock key does not cause the LED to toggle. I am unable to activate any
window or pulldown menu. I am unable to affect any window in any way. There
is no window selected as the active window, and I am unable to select any
window as the active window (I use "FocusFollowsMouse").
I am able to telnet into this machine. A "top" indicates 98.9% idle, and only
"X" is using the CPU. I am able to kill off applications (Mozilla, kmail),
but there is no change in the "X" display. No errors or messages are present
in /var/log/messages that are out of the normal.
On my one attempt to issue a "reboot" command from the telnet session, the
command did not complete. I issued a second command, which caused the PC to
reset immediately (i.e. unclean shutdown).
This has just started happening in the last few weeks, but I don't think
anything I messed with caused this (could be wrong though). The fourth
occurrence was today. I mucked around with a bunch of DVD player stuff two
weeks ago, but I don't -think- I overwrote anything that would cause this.
If I did, I would expect to seem something in /var/log/messages.
Any suggestions or pointers anyone? Or advice on what to dig for next time it
happens?
Thanks in advance.
--
Michael White "To protect people from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer, 1891
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Received on Sun Oct 24 2004 - 19:43:33 BST