-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ever get the feeling that computers "know" when they are about to get replaced? [or the OS, at least?] I just had something REALLY STRANGE happen to me, and it is no secret that SuSE 8.2 is "on the way" Mind you, I keep my workstation logged in and running 24x7 [I live alone, so little or no security risk there] and this session had been running since the 1st. In any case, around midnight I took a break like I usually do to watch the meager anime offerings on cartoon network. When I came back ALL MY ICONS WERE GONE! Not only that, but "right clicking" the desktop wouldn't bring up a menu [I'm running KDE 3.1.1, BTW] and even more curious, when I switched to desk #2, the background [which rotates amongst three choices] didn't change to any of those choices -- it was still the image that is on desk #1 It's alive, I tell you 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] 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? - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+noEqV/YHUqq2SwsRAjn4AKCIkQB1SPst+Nk9bDjzHSrldVrJLACfc9hq oy/Ge0syeVomCh6n5mzbIjc= =/zVm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 12:25, Tom Emerson wrote:
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?
sounds like kdesktop crashed on you.
On Thursday 17 April 2003 03:25 am, Tom Emerson wrote:
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?
Looks like you have a Windows emulator running on your Linux box!
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Anders Johansson
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Salman Khilji
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Tom Emerson