Recently installed 0.61.2pre4 on my home workstation. Everything seemed fine 'til just a short while ago.
I had a few rxvt (v 2.7.6) sessions open along with gkrellm (v1.2.2) and Evolution (v1.0) and esd (v 0.2.22). I noticed that new mail had arrived and went to filter my INBOX. That's when I noticed that none of the applications where responding. The mouse would move without a hitch, but nothing would respond. I couldn't change to another virtual terminal and I couldn't kill X (via CTRL-ALT-BKSPCE). I was however able to remote into the system from my laptop. From the remote session I noticed that X was taking nearly 100% of the CPU time. I tried killing the process by sending a SIGTERM, SIGSEGV, and SIGKILL. None of these worked. I then force a switch to runlevel 3 via 'init 3' and the X session died. I was then able to switch back to runlevel 5 via 'init 5' and everything seems to be working again. Are there any steps that I could take to provide more useful tracking information if this happens again? Jamin W. Collins