Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:30:38 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: observation.... Message-ID: <199812232130.NAA13848@tao.thought.org>
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This might be better sent to -question except that it really isn't a question; just an observation. Or discovery. For at least two years, on rare occasions, my system would freeze up. Power-cyclying was the only way back from this sudden death. It just happened again and I thought: Nuts!! But I rlogged in from my other cconsole to find things entirely alive. And I found the culprit. xscreensaver; ps ax shows that it spawned decayscreen. I was running netscape; killed it. Nada; then killed decayscreen and instantly every xterm came back to life. So one more of Life's mysteries solved; it wasn't the kernel. Hmm. gary PS: I'm going to be un-reachable for the next N days as my company moves across town. The network is going down 24dec98 and back up:: dunno. -g -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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