Public bug reported: alright, i just crashed the entire gui session of my ubuntu box by doing the following:
had ktorrent running in tray & played stepmania in fullscreen. then ktorrent had a torrent completed and tried to pop up a window in which it checks the completed download, this window wants to pop in foreground and bam! --> keyboard froze --> trackpad froze --> still in fullscreen mode and music keeps playing, funny - Tried to alt+F4, ctrl+C, ctrl+D, ctrl+<any key>, ctrl+alt+backspace, and every possible variation, no effect - Tried alt+ctrl+F5 to change runlevel, worked, tried to kill gdm, Xorg, from other runlevel (with sudo), no effect --> reboot box is samsung laptop with nvidia drivers and ubuntu 9.10 + latest updates. PS: running hedgewars in fullscreen also causes lockup in fullscreen sometimes, and i'd bet even more games/app would, if one tried PPS: why the frack does ktorrent use a fracking popup window to check its chunks? do it in fracking background, like normal programs! ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Dec 30 22:12:35 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: firefox 3.5.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic-pae SourcePackage: firefox-3.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic-pae i686 PPPS: and it subsequently corrupted the torrent, 5 damaged chunks, great, somehow this crap only happens on linux ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- crashed entire gui while in fullscreen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501744 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs