* Brian Ristuccia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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.
Right, I see it now. Never do that, I don't see that message when I get the severity reassignment. Always CC the bug address too. > 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. Is it all that common that firefox will hang when it's grabbed the X pointer? Plus, how couldn't you get another terminal up? I mean if you disable all the VCs on the machine, then it's possible, but is that really a realistic scenario? -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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