On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 19:08 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > I've been running yum logged in graphically and using copy/paste to > save the results. I know, the prefered way is to tee yum in a console > window, but I'm lazy. > > So I left it running just now, and when I came back and tried to > bring it back from the screen saver, the screen just remained blank. > <snip> > Checked yum and xorg logs but don't see anything that looks like a > complaint in there. yum.log does show that the screen saver got > updated about 10 packages before the end and screensaver's extras got > updated about three from the end of the log. > I would expect that the update to the screensaver while screensaver was active could cause the symptoms you saw. It blanked with one binary and was trying to wake up with a different binary that was not quite identical.
