OK folks, moving on from here to blogspot
...you would assume. Not so for the people at Mozilla :-(Bug 244411 was reported by me on 2004-05-23 01:01 PDT, on 2004-05-24 07:51:04 PDT it was marked as duplicate of Bug 125885 which was created on 2002-02-16 07:22 PDT.The discussion on how to solve the issue is still going strong.Very complicated you would think, read for yourself.The last message for this bug is 2007-03-24 13:00:19 PDT, which is just 5 years later, astonishing, isn't it ?
...on boot. A Linux "bluescreen" finally.What to do ?Answer "No" and, after GDM starts, open a Terminal and, as root, issue:#rm /tmp/X0-lock