Thanks for following up. I've since upgraded to 7.10.
This specific problem hasn't recurred, but I have had intermittent stability problems similar to what was reported (though none as serious) - in the most recent problem, I booted the machine and logged in while the monitor was turned off. After turning on the monitor, I was unable to change the screen resolution. I logged out then logged back in, and my desktop was gone. The window manager froze and I had to do a hard shutdown. Things recovered well after reboot.
As a practical matter, given the frequency of occurrence and the unpredictable nature of similar behaviors (and the bug backlog), I'd suggest changing the bug status to 'non-reproducible' or a similar category for now, or leave it as incomplete, and close it. This doesn't sound easy to trace down...
Thanks for following up. I've since upgraded to 7.10.
This specific problem hasn't recurred, but I have had intermittent stability problems similar to what was reported (though none as serious) - in the most recent problem, I booted the machine and logged in while the monitor was turned off. After turning on the monitor, I was unable to change the screen resolution. I logged out then logged back in, and my desktop was gone. The window manager froze and I had to do a hard shutdown. Things recovered well after reboot.
As a practical matter, given the frequency of occurrence and the unpredictable nature of similar behaviors (and the bug backlog), I'd suggest changing the bug status to 'non-reproducible' or a similar category for now, or leave it as incomplete, and close it. This doesn't sound easy to trace down...