still having occasional hard desktop lockups

Aioanei Rares schaiba at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 12:29:17 UTC 2009


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i know i've mentioned this before but i'm still having the
> occasional desktop lockup where, when i'm trying to, say, just drag a
> window, the cursor changes to the 4-way arrow and just *stays* that
> way.  i can still move the cursor but it's painfully slow and there's
> no way to get control of the system back short of power cycling.
>
>   IIRC, if i'm on a network, i can still ssh in so the underlying
> system is still functioning, but there's no way to break out of X
> anymore -- ctrl-alt-bs doesn't work.
>
>   is anyone else seeing this?  radeon driver.
>
> rday
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Not sure if ctrl+alt+bkspc works anymore on Fedora...[grin]




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