freecell crashes x while yum is running

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 15:56 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:28 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote:
> >   
> >> As Red Skeleton was known to say, "I just do them, I don't explain 
> >> them". I have noticed more than once that x freezes if I am playing 
> >> freecell while running "sudo yum update" from a gnome terminal. I have 
> >> not had X freeze in any other scenario. The symptoms of the freeze are:
> >>
> >>    1. yum is downloading at the time
> >>    2. It happens while I am dragging a card - the motion freezesa
> >>    3. The mouse still moves but none of the rollovers do anything and
> >>       clicking doesn't have any effect
> >>    4. The keyboard doesn't have any effect. Not even ctrl-alt-del,
> >>       ctrl-alt-f2, or ctrl-alt-backspace
> >>    5. The gnome monitor panel applet freezes
> >>    6. ssh works. I can log in from another machine
> >>    7. /sbin/init 3 doesn't do anything
> >>
> >> I am running F10 rawhide on a Dell Latitude D620 - integrated Intel 
> >> graphics chip. 
> >>     
> >
> > How much memory do you have in the system?
> >
> > -sv
> >   
> One Gig of ram  and at least 6 gig free on vars partition. If it happens 
> again I check how ram is used.

and type 'dmesg' and look for OOM or Out-of-Memory in the output.

-sv