Hang your system with firewall-config

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/24/2013 12:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> This is a fully updated F18 system.  I've reproduced this in both a Vbox VM as well as actual system.
>
> You can hang your KDE session by doing the following....
>
> 1.  Start firewall-config as a normal user.
> 2.  Enter the password as prompted.
> 3.  Do *nothing* with firewall-config for about 4 minutes (I don't know the polkit timeout).
> 4.  Toggle the "Current View" from Runtime to Persistent.
> 5.  Your session is hung.
>
> The cursor moves but you can't enter the password and you can't raise any windows or access the menus. 
>
> You can ssh into the system and kill the firewall-config process to regain your system.
>

Forgot to add....   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903475

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