On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:26:07PM -0500 or thereabouts, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > I often end up with unkillable processes from gnome, where kill -9 won't > get rid of them. This seems to only happen on remote X terminals (e.g. > LTSP), and only when I logout with a gnome application still running > that I have forgotten about. "State: D (disk sleep)" is the reason they are unkillable. I managed to get one of the kernel daemons into this state some time ago, and things went very messy indeed :) Disk sleep means they are waiting for a response from the kernel, as far as I recall. > BTW, free RedHat 7.3 support ends tonight. What are other people > doing for free or low cost source of support (as in updates) for home use of > Gnome 2? I like RPM - and building source RPMS that support my distro > is no problem. I have been handling security updates (for sendmail, openssh, > openssl, etc) to RedHat 6.2 myself with no problem at work (and will probably > continue that way for RH72 and RH73). However, I tend to get confused > trying to get these GUI systems compiled and integrated. The company > offering $5/mo security updates doesn't cover upgrading/fixing Gnome. I am using Fedora, but I don't know how easy the 7.3->Fedora upgrade is. There is a Fedora Legacy project out there, I believe, although the mail archives go very quiet as of recently. Perhaps they all decamped to another list. I dunno. http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list Telsa _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
