This morning, the gnome desktop my wife's laptop stopped responding to left mouseclicks on launchers, left mouseclicks on panel closes, and other weirdnesses. Left mouseclicks still worked in the workspace switcher in the panel. A crtl-alt-bs restart of X did not help. A reboot with an fsck did not help.
In the log file /var/log/gdm/:0.log, I saw a few messages like: AUDIT: Tue Sep 29 08:38:04 2009: 3508 Xorg: client 5 rejected from local host ( process 3508 is the Xorg server ) After looking for a cause, like a recently updated package or a missing file, I came up empty. The only thing different is that she ran Win2K under VMware yesterday, in order to run a .exe on a cdrom. Perhaps the vmware daemon ate a file in some obscure place. She needed her machine, so I punted. I used yum to update the gdm RPM package, then rebooted, and the error seems to have vanished. I'm not happy with that - what if the error returns? I have nightly backups, and can do some forensics, but that is an awful lot of files to look through. Any likely culprits I should be looking at? Keith PS: RHEL5 clone, 2.6.18-92 kernel, radeon, Xorg 1.1.1-48 if that matters -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
