> > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X
> >
> > It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond. Usually
> > it's instant, but it wasn't in this case.
>
> A second is more like it. You've got something stealing cycles in a big way!
The problem is that a _lot_ of different things can cause these
temporary lockups in which the only thing that'll be noticed by the
computer is a power failure (intentional or otherwise). Let's see... I
had this problem while playing with xfontsel under GNUstep and fvwm2 on
a system running Red Hat 5.0. It's probably important that you know
that this is on a 486SX/25MHz machine with 24MB actual RAM. There don't
appear to be any disk accesses or other little noises indicating
anything going under the hood. If any real processing is going on, it's
all in RAM. I noticed a fvwm2 error log file in ~/andy today. I read
it: It was a huge list of /tmp files it tried deleting but couldn't
since I didn't have permission to. I wonder if that has anything to do
with these lockups.
