upgrading helix-gnome stuff
Hello, when upgrading to the latest helix-gnome debs from within helix-gnome, often weird things happen to my X-Server. Often, for instance my computer constantly beeps at me, until I push Alt+Backspace, and force it to restart. Once, my whole console locked up, and I had to log in remotely (None of the hot keys worked). I know somebody who uses Redhat, and the Helix rpms, and had exactly the same problem. (except in this case a reboot was required, and remotely logging in was not practical). I am curious, how can upgrading helix wreck the running X-Server so badly? Is this a bug in the X-Server? -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading helix-gnome stuff
On 25 Jul 2000, Brian May wrote: Hello, when upgrading to the latest helix-gnome debs from within helix-gnome, often weird things happen to my X-Server. Often, for instance my computer constantly beeps at me, until I push Alt+Backspace, and force Did it beep at you only when you press keys or click the mouse? I have seen X do that a few times.. it is very very odd. Jason
Re: upgrading helix-gnome stuff
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason On 25 Jul 2000, Brian May wrote: when upgrading to the latest helix-gnome debs from within helix-gnome, often weird things happen to my X-Server. Often, for instance my computer constantly beeps at me, until I push Alt+Backspace, and force Jason Did it beep at you only when you press keys or click the Jason mouse? I have seen X do that a few times.. it is very very Jason odd. No, it beeps with my hands off everything. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading helix-gnome stuff
Hi Brian, Quoth Brian May, when upgrading to the latest helix-gnome debs from within helix-gnome, often weird things happen to my X-Server. Often, for instance my computer constantly beeps at me, until I push Alt+Backspace, and force it to restart. Once, my whole console locked up, and I had to log in remotely (None of the hot keys worked). I have also observed this behaviour, and as far as I can work out, it comes from sawfish (the default helix window-manager) not allowing itself to be upgraded gracefully. The best way that I have found to get around this is to log out of X (and into the GDM login screen) and then run the apt-get upgrade from a console. If anyone has any better suggestions, I'd be interested to hear about them. It's pretty annoying, especially with something updated as frequently as sawfish. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) - pgpIPCn6jtDkz.pgp Description: PGP signature
