Hi all!
yesterday, I experienced a very weird problem with X : the background of
my Laptop become suddenly black, excepting two areas : one showed a fragment
of a picture with a dog in it ( only the head an part of the body ),
the other showed an half-schetched drawing which could be a dog, a penguin
o similar.
The weirdness of all this is that I don't have these pictures on my hard disk:
after the fact, I also made a 'find -name "*.[jpg,jpeg,xpm]" -exec display {}'
without finding them (apart from that, I am the only user of the laptop,
so I should know ).
Apart from that, X was still running and all the window stayed open,
except for the one showing a Netscape download, which aborted.
Since my laptop was attached to the Internet with a statical IP and
behind a proxy/gateway which does no firewall/filtering, I also thought
of an attack. I searched the obvious logs and such, but couldn't find
anything. I have no secrets on the laptop, so I'm not worried, but
I'd like to know what the heck happened.
I was running WindowMaker : exiting and restarting it restored normality.
I was running also xscreensaver, so it could be (I guess) a joke within it
(like the fake kernel crash screensaver) : only, it did not disappear when
I pressed keys or moved the mouse.
One last thing : I was downloading a fairly large file ( the Java SDK :
30 MB ) and my laptop small disk is nearly full. Wasn't for the weird
pictures, a file system full could have justified the thing ( except I
whas downloading the file in th /home partition, not in the /system one ).
That's all. I don't know what to think about. Suggestions ?
Ciao
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FB
