W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
I had this sort of thing happen once too... I think I was playing with an early beta of the gimp. My take on it was that it took the X server down in some nasty way. The X server, of course, is running as root and thus should be more capable of buggering the whole system. Shouldn't happen, however... --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
