Did X11 ruin my login session?
Did X11 ruin my login session?
- Subject: Did X11 ruin my login session?
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:29:21 +0100 (CET)
I don't know if X11 is to be blamed for this experience, but since I
was using it intensively at the time, I do suspect it.
Here is what happened: I use Spaces. I had maybe half a dozen X11
windows open in space 3 when I ran a command that put something on the
clipboard (the command was xsel -s CLIPBOARD -c in an xterm running on
a remote computer, if that is relevant). I immediately tried
switching to space 1 in order to paste the text into an emacs. But I
found I could no longer switch spaces by any of the methods avaible.
Also, the Dock had stopped working, and Command-Tab had no effect.
Other than that, things seemed to be working as normal, though.
Thinking that X11 was to blame I closed all the windows and quit X11.
This did not change anything. Then I tried logging out, which was
difficult because some programs (Firefox and Vienna) running in a
different space wanted to ask questions before quitting, but those
dialogs were in an inaccessible space, of course (I did see Firefox's
question about closing multiple tabs for a short while). So I had to
force quit those apps. In the end, the logout procedure hung at the
point where all I could see was the bare desktop, no icons and no menu
bar. So I had to force a reboot (Control-Command-Power).
Now as I said, this may not be X11's fault at all. But I report it
here anyway in case others have similar tales to tell.
(It appears that the forced reboot has destroyed the spotlight index,
so now ATSServer, mds and mdworker are hard at work reindexing my
entire disk, and the CPU fan that I just had replaced is getting a
good workout. It estimates an additional 14 hours for the job. Just
a couple minutes ago, the estimate was 11 hours. Hmmm.)
- Harald
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