Weird rawhide desktop behavior

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

On 03/24/2012 11:12 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 03/24/2012 05:58 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a 
>> while,
>> though I've seen it before.  I'm not sure where to file a bug on this
>> one...
>>
>> In short: I'll be working away, minding my own business, when the 
>> desktop
>> goes completely dead - no response to any key or mouse events.  That 
>> said,
>> the X server is still running; the pointer still moves with the 
>> mouse.  I
>> can also switch to another virtual console with alt-ctrl-Fn.  Sometimes
>> things start working again after some time (measured in minutes);
>> sometimes I lose patience and start over.  Today I went and made 
>> lunch and
>> it never came back.
>
> Hmm
>
> I think there was a lock screen bug mentioned upstream that fits this 
> description...
>
> JBG
Same thing happened to me with RC1 Gnome on 64 bit.  Yum update was running
in one window and I was surfing in another, each window taking up about 
half the
1080x1920 monitor.  All of a sudden Firefox stopped responding and Yum 
ground to a halt.
The mouse cursor still followed mouse movements, but the keyboard  and 
mouse keys
were dead.  No Ctrl-Alt-Fn did anything.  No LED response to CapsLock 
etc..   Some
background process accessed the HD from time to time.  I had to use the  
hardware reset.

Yum was hopelessly confused so I reinstalled RC1 and ran yum update from 
a console
terminal.  Hooray for Xfce which works better now.  Everyone I know of 
who uses Linux
as a tool rather dislikes Gnome 3, so let's make sure Xfce works properly.

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