freecell crashes x while yum is running

[shmuel siegel]

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.