My first DontZap use case while testing F11 beta

[Dr. Diesel]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Shawn Starr <sstarr at platform.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Paul Wouters
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 4:32 PM
> > To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: My first DontZap use case while testing F11 beta
> >
> >
> >
> > My first fedora 11 beta run-in with not having dontzap set to false.
> >
> > I have a dual twin setup. This already requires an xorg.conf file,
> > because in the no-config running, xorg decides you want to only use
> > one of the two screens it finds. I don't know why, I consider
> > it a bug.
> >
> > I configure it to have dual screen. When I login, my window
> > manager dies
> > on me. My gnome panel only works in my left screen, but anything I
> > select pops up on the right screen, out of focus. I can move my mouse
> > into the other screen but I cannot get any focus. So I cannot get to a
> > terminal or any other application.
> >
> > So I ctrl-alt-f2. Now my left monitor goes into standby mode and my
> > right monitor just shows a blinking cursor. The same for all
> > VC's except
> > alt-f7 which brings me back to my broken X session.
> >
> > I had to login via ssh to fix my machine, because I could not
> > restart X.
> > Indeed, i did not have sysrq enabled yet, that's disabled per
> > default it
> > seems.
> >
>
> You could have also rebooted and booted into runlevel 3 to edit xorg.conf
> :-)
>
> Shawn.
>

vi is probably next on the chopping block.  He should have just reinstalled,
since that is where we are headed :D



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