Re: Crashing

I am not sure about Teemu Nikkila's case, but when I said X server 
crash, I meant crash.
The X server is then restarted by the display manager and I am free to 
start another session.
Richard is right, however - If X crashes then the bug is in X.

Richard Hult wrote:

>ons 2002-08-07 klockan 12.50 skrev Teemu Nikkilä:
>
>>On Tiistai 6. Elokuuta 2002 16:50, Paul Hardiman wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>I am having situations where using MrProject crashes my X server.
>>>I am running "out of the box" RH 7.2.
>>>My X server seldom crashes.
>>>
>>Yesterday my X-server crashed badly while using MrProject. I am running SuSE 
>>8.0. I'm afraid that there is a big bug somewhere.
>>
>
>Appearantly in the X server :) If X crashes, it's always a bug in X.
>
>Unless you have mixed up the term crash with grab. Etable, that is used
>in MrProject up to 0.5.1, is known to sometimes grab the mouse and
>keyboard and not let it go. This can be worked around by switching to
>another desktop and then back, or if I recall correctly, by switching to
>console and kill mrproject.
>
Regards,
Paul Hardiman.