On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 14:06, tom b wrote:
ran inkscape in shell & inkscape window opened fine (though I did notice window resizing was slow on my AthlonXP 2200) drew a square shape, computer locked up (I could move mouse, but not click, & [Enter] wouldn't work) shell said "Emergency save activated! completed..." had to do a hardware reboot (couldn't reboot in linux) (BTW: I have the exact same lockup problem with .39 in Win98se & Mandrake Cooker on the same computer. But Debian unstable seemed to work fine.)
Hmm, could you switch to another virtual console, log in, and kill Inkscape? I suspect it had a mouse and keyboard grab.
If killing Inkscape didn't work, try killing the X server.
If the machine is actually locked to the point where you can't even do that, you have a hardware, kernel, or X bug, not (just) an Inkscape bug.
-mental