Michael A. Peters schrieb: > Michael A. Peters wrote: > >>> I'm writing for a couple reasons. >>> >>> I'm curious to see if this is only my problem, or if other have >>> experienced it or can replicate it. >> Confirmed - also i386 mharris packaging. > > update - it didn't actually bring the OS down, it brought X11 down - > though it looked like CentOS was down. Pressing the power button > (thinkpad) resulted in X11 restarting followed by a clean shutdown. If you can bring down X11 with a userspace program then this is not an issue of your application but of X11. It means there is a bug in X11. I guess you were doing this as a normal user and not as root? Rainer