I have 3 screens on my main machine, which is in another room and is powered on 24/7. So to cut down on glare, when I retire for the night, I blanks the screens with CTRL-ALT-F1. I can bring them back with CTRL-ALT-F7 in the morning, but from time to time there is a wierd image that floats for a time above the X displays and then disappears. It contains text which appears to be HTML with error information about a DNS lookup.
It is also hard to understand because the text is truncated at the right margin rather than wrapping, so only a fragment is actually visible. The image is static — I cannot scroll it.
I would like to know:
- What is the origin of this image. I know it has a Linux Journal logo, but that just makes it more mysterious.
- What does it signify.
- Why does it only show up while the screens are returning from local console mode; it’s not at all clear to me what this has to do with DNS.
The image:
