Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > On Friday 15 November 2002 15:25, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > > Can anyone of you confirm that this is due to xmms? > > > If so, I think there must be a severe bug anywher

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-18 Thread Michael Naumann
On Friday 15 November 2002 15:25, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > Can anyone of you confirm that this is due to xmms? > > If so, I think there must be a severe bug anywhere, > > if not, I think there is an even more severe bug out there. > > I

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > Can anyone of you confirm that this is due to xmms? > If so, I think there must be a severe bug anywhere, > if not, I think there is an even more severe bug out there. I can't imagine how XMMS could take down your whole machine, at

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 14 November 2002 06:52, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:13:10PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:08:08AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > > Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. > > > I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here. > > > The whole disp

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-14 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:52:21PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:13:10PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:08:08AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > > Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. > > > I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here. > > > The whol

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 14 November 2002 01:59, nate wrote: > Michael Naumann said: > > Warning: could not lock the chache file. Opening in read-only mode. > > I have never used this program, but if it were me the first > thing I would do is run strace on the app > > strace aptitude That's one thing I also

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:13:10PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:08:08AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. > > I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here. > > The whole display was very flickery and no > > application responded any mor

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-13 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:08:08AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. > I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here. > The whole display was very flickery and no > application responded any more, though I saw, that > gkrellm was still working. Even switching

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-13 Thread nate
Michael Naumann said: > Warning: could not lock the chache file. Opening in read-only mode. I have never used this program, but if it were me the first thing I would do is run strace on the app strace aptitude and see what file(s) its trying to access. if the screen scrolls to hell and back

aptitude locked

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Naumann
Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here. The whole display was very flickery and no application responded any more, though I saw, that gkrellm was still working. Even switching to a console (ALT-F1) did not succeed. I had the the X-screen still visible