Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-26 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 11:58 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a while, > though I've seen it before. I'm not sure where to file a bug on this > one... There's several levels of "X locked up" pathology, let's see if I can shed some li

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:01:26 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > I would also like to point to our own documentation regarding SysRQ > [1] which I created a while back for the QA community to use and > improve. > > Dont hesitate improve/add anything to that page. > 1.http://fedoraproject.org

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-25 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/25/2012 03:46 PM, stan wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:58:15 -0600 Jonathan Corbet wrote: Anybody got a clue what's going on, or where I could look to get more information? Another suggestion is to use the emergency recovery key sequence. I think it is compiled by default into the Fedora

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-25 Thread stan
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:58:15 -0600 Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Anybody got a clue what's going on, or where I could look to get more > information? Another suggestion is to use the emergency recovery key sequence. I think it is compiled by default into the Fedora kernels. Described here: http://e

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 19:32 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > X wedged on me again while I was running Gnome. > I rebooted and started Xfce. It wedged after some minutes. > > I then installed the current Nvidia proprietary driver. The computer > has not > wedged for a few hours. Thi

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 21:09 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 03/24/2012 08:34 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:23:26 -0700 > > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > >> Jonathan, Chuck - if you try holding down a key that ought to do > >> something for half a second instead of

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
X wedged on me again while I was running Gnome. I rebooted and started Xfce. It wedged after some minutes. I then installed the current Nvidia proprietary driver. The computer has not wedged for a few hours. This suggests the problem lies with the default X server for my GTX 460SE ... or an

RE: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread John Dulaney
> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:37:38 -0300 > Subject: Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior > From: look...@gmail.com > To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > Here's a strange pathology that just bit me

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a while, > though I've seen it before.  I'm not sure where to file a bug on this > one... > > In short: I'll be working away, minding my own business, when the desktop > goes

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/24/2012 08:34 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:23:26 -0700 Adam Williamson wrote: Jonathan, Chuck - if you try holding down a key that ought to do something for half a second instead of just pressing it, does it work? I'll try that next time the problem hits. I don't h

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread stan
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:58:15 -0600 Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a > while, though I've seen it before. I'm not sure where to file a bug > on this one... > > In short: I'll be working away, minding my own business, when the > desktop

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:23:26 -0700 Adam Williamson wrote: > Jonathan, Chuck - if you try holding down a key that ought to do > something for half a second instead of just pressing it, does it work? I'll try that next time the problem hits. I don't have any real way to provoke it now, though, so

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 11:43 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > On 03/24/2012 11:12 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > On 03/24/2012 05:58 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > >> Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a > >> while, > >> though I've seen it before.

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/24/2012 11:12 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 03/24/2012 05:58 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a while, though I've seen it before. I'm not sure where to file a bug on this one... In short: I'll be working away, minding

Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior

2012-03-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/24/2012 05:58 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a while, though I've seen it before. I'm not sure where to file a bug on this one... In short: I'll be working away, minding my own business, when the desktop goes completely dead -