If your screensaver really died but you were still not back to normal, that implies the screensaver was not the problem. Or at least not the only problem. I've had screen savers hang a machine but in all cases, if it can be killed, everything clears up. Dana Bourgeois > -----Original Message----- > From: psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Diehl > Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 9:03 PM > To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Display and hard lock problems > > > On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Randy Kelsoe wrote: > > > Tom Diehl wrote: > > > > >Since upgrading to the 2.4.20-18.8 kernel I am > experiencing a lock up > > >of the display and keyboard when the screen saver comes on > (only the > > >one that describes how to compile a kernel but looks like > the intro > > >to a star wars movie) It has happened every time that screen saver > > >comes on and only with that particular screen saver. The > machine is > > >still alive I can ssh to it. There is nothing in the logs. The > > >display and keyboard do not come back until the computer > does a reset > > >in order to start the boot process. > > > > > >Has anyone seen this behavior? > > > > > > > > > > > I have seen this as well. What I could do was ssh into the box, run > > top, > > and kill the screensaver. The workaround for me was to turn > off random > > pick of the screensaver, and set it to one that I knew > would work (I'm > > using the lavalite). > > Hummm, interesting that killing the screensaver worked for > you. I tried that twice now and it did not help. So far the > only thing I can do to recover is reboot. I wonder if this is > a kernel bug or some kind of weird screensaver bug. > > I am leaning towards a kernel but because I do not think a > userspace program should be able to do things like this but... > > I guess it is time to search bugzilla. > > -- > ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
