Mysterious graphic that makes ubuntu host unusable

[Joel Rees]

2021年4月24日(土) 9:54 reader <reader at newsguy.com>:

> Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> writes:
>
> >> 2021年4月24日(土) 2:33 reader <reader at newsguy.com>:
> >>
> >>
> >> When I switch back to ubuntu zfs I sometimes find a full screen graphic
> >> displayed.
> >
> > What is the graphic? Is this a photo or a design or a logo or what?
>
> Sorry, I actually meant to include that info, but got so tangled up
> trying to tell the story... I forgot to.
>
> Seems to be different graphic maybe not every time but I've seen a
> total of 3 different one so far.
>
> 2 were big blobs of various colors arranged inside of a soft sided
> triangle with rouned corners.  Covered a good bit of the screen and was
> A bit off center.  You might imagine it as an equilateral triangle
> with 1 inch radius corners.  Filled with multiple bright colors
>
> The various colors fill the triangle completely... no spaces in there.
> So 2 were that triangle thingy but with different colors ... the
> colors don't move or anything.
>
> The most recent one resembles a sprayed out pile of railroad track but
> with 3 long elements and many smaller cross elements instead of 2.
>
> Arranged in a sort of pile at upper rightish then sprayed out onto the
> screen in variouis directions... and with some perspective change
> through the length of them.  Also multiple colors fading into each
> other.
>
> The track like one has lots of black screen showing thru
>
> I will try to get a cell phone picture next time.  But hopefully it
> won't happen too soon.. its quite a disruption to get the host usable
> again.
>

I'm pretty sure that's a screen saver that is running for some reason even
though we've shut the normal screen savers off.

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