Unity: DoS/death by screenshot key still possible
Bug #731917 reported by
Paul Sladen
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayatana Design |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
An old chestnut from GNOME Panel days: bug #34492 ("DoS by screenshot")
1. Hold down the "PrintScreen" button for 30 seconds.
2. Your machine is now unusable.
If you're really lucky and prepared to wait a couple of minutes doing then it should be possible to get to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and run 'killall -9 gnome-screenshot', otherwise it's time to reboot by some forceful means (the power button).
Ideally screenshot should be fire on edge, not on repeat. For a sanity-check it could be rate limited too in addition.
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| assignee: | nobody → John Lea (johnlea) |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| tags: |
added: udt removed: sniffles |
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → New |
| tags: | removed: udt |
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| importance: | Low → Undecided |
| assignee: | John Lea (johnlea) → nobody |
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