[sugar] session became not accessible

Mikus Grinbergs mikus at bga.com
Fri Jul 18 14:19:47 EDT 2008


Joyride 2177; G1G1; Q2E11.  Don't know what exactly I did, besides 
erasing entry of a currently running Terminal session from Journal.

The problem was -- eventually I could not make my XO show me that 
session.  If I did alt-tab between sessions, *that* session was 
never displayed - alt-tab merely switched between Journal and the 
other session (also Terminal) that was running.  And if I brought up 
Frame, it showed three sessions "current" - Journal plus two 
Terminals.  If I clicked in Frame on the Journal session icon, the 
XO showed me the Journal session.  If I clicked in Frame on the 
first Terminal session icon, the XO showed me the Terminal session 
whose entry was still in the Journal.  If I clicked in Frame on the 
second Terminal session icon, the XO showed me the Journal session. 
  Doing 'ps -A' showed the application (started from Terminal) 
within the "unreachable" session still running (and accumulating CPU 
time).

mikus  (I rebooted, so I do not need help with this situation)


p.s.  I suspect that I got into this situation through the XO being 
WAY TOO SLOW in displaying a session on the screen.  What I saw 
(after doing alt-tab from Journal, and then alt-tab again - because 
nothing seemed to be happening) was the "header" (top bar, with 
unique name in it) belonging to the session with the application but 
the "body" (rest of screen) NOT correct - seemingly still left over 
from the session without the application.  I clicked on 'stop' 
(probably in both the session and in Journal) because I did not want 
to see the without-application-output screen.  But I'm guessing what 
somehow got "removed" was the session *identified* by the top bar, 
leaving me able to access only the session without the application.



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