On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:04:31AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > severity 288554 important > thanks > > It's generally considered very rude to just unilaterally upgrade a > bug's severity with no explanation. Nothing about this bug strikes me > as critical. Annoying to be sure, but not critical. Please explain > your reasoning. >
It's in the full text of the message to control at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=288554&msg=38 Adjusting severity to critical because this failure mode can cause unrelated software on the system (all X applications running on the same display) to become unusuable. Specificly, it's possible for firefox to get hung while it has the X pointer grabbed, which can result in a situation where you can't change the focus to any other windows running on that X server in order to save files, etc. If you can't get another terminal up on the machine running firefox to kill its process, the only way out is to either hope firefox comes back from lunch or to do a server kill with ctrl-alt-backspace and hope your other apps are smart enough to save on disconnect from the X server. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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