[wplug] White screen of death

[Michael Semcheski]

Try turning them on for the second user...  (I'm grasping, but I know
I've seen some correlation - and I don't remember the direction -
between that white screen and the desktop effects.)

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Weber, Lawrence
A<Lawrence.Weber at ansaldo-sts.us> wrote:
> No, but I do have them on for the first user.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+lawrence.weber=ansaldo-sts.us at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-bounces+lawrence.weber=ansaldo-sts.us at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Michael Semcheski
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [wplug] White screen of death
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> Do you have desktop effects enabled for the second user?
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Weber, Lawrence A<Lawrence.Weber at ansaldo-sts.us> wrote:
>> It only occurs about 1 out of every 5 or 6 times that I switch. And so far only when I go to the "second" user.  I ran this system for a couple of years with no problems, it was only when I recently added the second user that the problem started.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wplug-bounces+lawrence.weber=ansaldo-sts.us at wplug.org
>> [mailto:wplug-bounces+lawrence.weber=ansaldo-sts.us at wplug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Michael Semcheski
>> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:06 PM
>> To: General user list
>> Subject: Re: [wplug] White screen of death
>>
>> I haven't seen the exact behavior you describe, but when I've seen that kind of thing in Fedora, its usually related to a misconfigured video card / and or no opengl support.
>>
>> (Even if you're not doing anything explicitly 3D, OpenGL is used by
>> the window manager.)
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Weber, Lawrence A<Lawrence.Weber at ansaldo-sts.us> wrote:
>>> I am running Fedora 9, with two user accounts.  When I switch users I
>>> frequently get a white screen, with an active cursor arrow.  Is there
>>> a way to recover from this other than rebooting?
>>>
>>>
>>> Lawrence. A. Weber
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