On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > > > > > There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. > > > Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try > > > paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If > > > you do it "too fast", it will crash your system. There are other ways > > > to do it also, some I don't know how to repeat. > > > > This might be a libc problem. That seems to have been the problem > > with Netscape Communicator. Graphic intensive pages seemed to be > > one of it's first noticed crash and reboot sequences. > > A libc, netscape, WordPerfect problem should _NEVER_ crash linux itself. > (for the kernel, libc is just a part any application like netscape/gcc,etc, > so bugs in libc should, just like bugs in netscape, not crash linux). > > Do you guys really mean crashing linux, as in a solid system crash, not > be able to telnet into your mashine, etc? Or just a sigseg of > netscape/whatever?
In my case it was a crash as in the computer instantly rebooted! No lockup, no chance to telnet in, just reboot on its own. I know this should not happen. Netscape Communicator is the first program I have had crash linux. I have been running linux for several years ( since kernel 1.1.08 or so ). A libc upgrade did seem to solve the problem. > > > Today, I just discovered StarOffice. I can already tell it is much > > > better than wordIMperfect. Plus, you have all the other tools. Now > > > if I could just find the documentation so I could learn how to use > > > it... > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > ---------------- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ----------------- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow? : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer : -------------- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ ------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
