[19534] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.0.9: GNOME Control Center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri Aug 3 15:16:11 2001
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:16:09 -0400
Message-Id: <200108031916.PAA20736@anhedonia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Heather Anne <aurora@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu, rbasch@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[19516] in Athena Bugs"
(The problem occurred in trying to demo the xfishtank hack, which does
not exist).
I was able to reproduce this, though not reliably. The problem seems
to stem from our recent change to improve xss' handling of non-existent
hacks. That change is causing xss to keep trying to spawn the hack,
once per second. I am not sure how that resulted in the screen
getting wedged, but that problem no longer occurred when I tried
preventing it from respawning. I could not reproduce the failure to
re-enter the xscreensaver option in control center, but with any luck
that problem will no longer be relevant when we correct the respawning
problem.
I will submit a patch with the fix.
Bob
