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Bug 677129 - Sad computer forcing to close session
Sad computer forcing to close session
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 677875
Product: gnome-session
Classification: Core
Component: gnome-session
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Session Maintainers
Session Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-05-30 22:17 UTC by Linas
Modified: 2020-10-30 14:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Screenshot (26.77 KB, image/png)
2012-05-31 14:30 UTC, Linas
Details
xprop (6.95 KB, text/plain)
2012-05-31 14:31 UTC, Linas
Details

Description Linas 2012-05-30 22:17:41 UTC
I'm working with the computer and suddenly a top-level window with a "sad computer" appears. The window has a single button "Close session". Nothing else.

There are other programs in the background. I can Alt+TAB them but this windows raises itself, and doesn't allow to switch to other windows.
So I xkilled it. As response, it closed the session, LOSING ALL UNSAVED WORK.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Mac#Sad_Mac I *guess* it tries to provide some kind of "catastrophic session error" message.
I would have expected at least a message saying so (even better if it has/points to some kind of log), not an unexpected window taking over the screen as it if were a virus.

Even if there was no option to restore the WM other than restarting the complete session (which there probably was), it should have allowed me to gracefully close the open applications, saving the files when needed.


PS: As it didn't identify itself, product is a wild guess.
Comment 1 Linas 2012-05-31 14:30:22 UTC
Created attachment 215336 [details]
Screenshot

Screenshot of the window.
Funnily, the screensaver will happily run over it, just dropping to this window when you unlock the screen (quite understable when you know how X11 works, but unintuitive).
Comment 2 Linas 2012-05-31 14:31:05 UTC
Created attachment 215337 [details]
xprop

Output of xprop for the window.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2020-10-30 14:30:29 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 677875 ***