On Tue, 5 May 2009, Mike Miller wrote: > I mostly work from an IceWM session within Xvnc, but I also run Gnome on > the same machine. I accidentally logged out of Gnome when I meant to > click "lock screen" and it did not prompt with a dialog box -- it just > killed every window and restarted. Is that abnormal behavior? I think > it should prompt. > > Anyway, the big issue is that IceWM is no longer working in Xvnc. It is > completely frozen. I can see from "ps" that all the processes are > running -- dozens of them -- but I don't know how to get at them. It looks like logging out of Gnome somehow killed all of these processes used by IceWM: icewm-session icewmbg icewm icewmtray Anyway, I'm sure I'm screwed. So now that I might as well try the Ubuntu upgrade to 9.04 in the office. Why not? I did it at home and it was very smooth and easy. I just did a test by logging out of Gnome with a new IceWM session running in a new VNC session. No problem. There definitely was something pathological about the earlier Gnome log out. It went to a console prompt for a while. I think it was a total restart of X, probably because of updates. I assume restarting X will kill IceWM. Something to watch out for in the future!! Mike