freecell crashes x while yum is running

Aioanei Rares schaiba at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 11:53:46 UTC 2008


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.
If you do that in, say, KDE, does it happend?




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