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Kurokishin

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Registered: 2021-03-13

Posts: 39

The whole OS freezed (including ttys)

I made the mistake of running "fzf" in dmenu when I actually wanted to launch another application, after that the whole system got stuck and although I could switch through ttys they were unresponsive. Considering that I didn't think of any other solution and hard-reseted my computer.

My questions are:
What should I do in that situation?

Is there a way to prevent dmenu from showing stuff that aren't actually runnable?

Last edited by Kurokishin (2022-08-17 01:38:14)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: The whole OS freezed (including ttys)

fzf will run and depending on much stuff is in your $HOME and RAM you have and how fast your disk is completely thrash your system (noticed a furiously blinking HDD LED?)

dmenu actually doesn't run anything, you were probably runnin dmenu_run which is a script that reads the input from dmenu and feeds it into a function.
Manipulating that script (eg. w/ a shadowing copy in /usr/local/bin or $HOME/bin) allows you to conditionally ignore "fatal" input.

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