RE: [SLE] It's Alive!
Hi Tom,
Fortunately, the bottom task bar was still functional, so I could >>get a shell session going and take a look around -- it turns out that >>my "desktop" items were still in the Desktop directory, they just weren't displaying >>[everything ELSE about my desktop worked, even switching from one to another, >>but no icons, no "refresh", no "pop-up" menu, or anything like that was >>possible]
Very strange indeed.
Equally fortunate, "clearing this up" was a matter of simply >>exiting and restarting my "X" session -- no reboot required -- but it was >>strange all the same. Has anyone else seen "strange" behaviour for sessions that >>have long uptimes?
Nope I've never seen this happen with KDE. But I have heard of cases where people had to restart the X-server after long durations of uptime. Another strategy to try if all else fails in KDE is pressing <ctrl> <alt> <f7> which should give you a standard login prompt outside of X. When you login here, you get a normal bash shell. ~~Nick _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 12:36, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
Another strategy to try if all else fails in KDE is pressing <ctrl> <alt> <f7> which should give you a standard login prompt outside of X. When you login here, you get a normal bash shell.
No, but almost any other F-key would :) F1-F6 are (by default, it can be changed) text logins. F7 is the (by default the primary) graphical session.
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Nope I've never seen this happen with KDE. But I have heard of cases where people had to restart the X-server after long durations of uptime.
Anders commented that perhaps Kdesktop crashed, which would make sense if the only thing "kdesktop" does is manage icons and the context menu -- everything else about KDE seemed to be working -- I could start new programs from the taskbar/menu, switch between desktops [though the background didn't change], minimize, maximize, or quit/restart applications, etc. I'm also tempted to point the finger at Kmail -- when I restarted my session and started up kmail, it showed 25 items in my outbox -- admittedly, my first thought was "oh no -- a kmail-compatible OUTLOOK worm!" but closer inspection showed the cause to be a corrupted index [as I scanned the cursor through the list of items, they changed to "no subject" and was appearently blank] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+noxAV/YHUqq2SwsRAo5ZAJwP9w6BXx+RX7xYRSSM+ttjkNzwkQCfbyED s2hVnKQd2Th6nfuNwxrRank= =mx5H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 13:13, Tom Emerson wrote:
[three copies of his response -- two of which actually filtered into the SuSE folder
And one of those are because of a seriously messed up mailserver connected to this list through smtp.student.binus.ac.id. It relays header To: fields. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it were a Domino server.
Anders commented that perhaps Kdesktop crashed, which would make sense if the only thing "kdesktop" does is manage icons and the context menu
Indeed yes. Read the description at http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/info/id/526
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Anders Johansson
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Nicholas Parsons
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Tom Emerson