When the X server hangs, there's no way to affect it from the console. Ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't work. Nothing moves on the display. However, I can login to the machine over the net. When I do, the system is idle (the X server isn't burning CPU). I see an xscreensaver process but don't see any screensaver running. The xscreensaver process is sitting in a select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL).
This bug has been reported two years ago, one year ago, and seventy days ago (by different people). I can reproduce it easily on a machine that I'm happy to give a developer access to. It makes the entire machine unusable without a reboot (or intervention from across the network), from the screen saver. Can someone spare a few hours to debug it? I'm encountering this bug with more screensavers than just "molecule" (which I turned off with chmod 0). There's one that displays text "Star Wars" fashion, fading off into infinity, with some rambling about Debian as the text. It hangs the X server too. I don't know its name. John Gilmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]