Steve Searle <steve <at> stevesearle.com> writes: > Assuming it was not a locked screen saver asking for your password (and > from what you have said it isn't), then this certainly *isn't* normal > behaviour and it is a problem. > > I would agree with others who think it may be a crashing screensaver > taking down the X Windows system. I have had this in the past when I > have had a random selection of screen savers. I would disable > screensavers and see if the problem goes away. If it does, you can then > activate them one at a time until it appears. In my experience the > problem is worse with 3gl cards and proprietary drivers. I can confirm this type of behaviour also. On machines running F8 with the KDE desktop and running gl screensavers I had one machine hang X completely as soon as the mouse was moved - the machine was running and i could ssh in, but X had crashed completely and even doing telinit 3 followed by telinit 5 did not restart X. This repeated at various random intervals. The only option I could find at that point was to reboot. Changing back to a non-gl screensaver gave no recurrence of this problem. It is possible others are seeing these symptoms and rebooting but not reporting.
