> linux is stable, or is it? Absolutely stable and crashproof? No. Anyone who says that has no idea what he is talking about. You can compare Linux operating systems to other operating systems if you wish, though.
> my squeeze has just crashed > it doesn't respond to key press > two of three lights in up right corner of keyboard blink Squeeze is now more than 2 years old and in this period I installed and administered dozens of debian computers. I had the oportunity to see lots of crashes not caused by hardware failure, almost all of them related to video or wifi drivers, i.e. still related to hardware. I don't recall to find any "purely algorithmic" kernel crash or panic in the last few years. > I suspect flash player in browser might be the cause > the player is downloaded from adobe site and installed by myself > besides I often see "XID collision, trouble ahead" though it rarely > cause problem I don't think so. Flashplayer is a completely user space program and as such it could completely lock the system up only if there was a kernel bug. I had and still have a lot o trouble with flashplayer, like it consuming all of the memory and processing, but I almost always could go to Control-Alt-F1, log in and kill it, apart from the times where the system was heavily thrashing (completely busy swaping memory) and I had no patience or hope to wait. This does not seem your to be your case, as the keyboard lights usually indicate a kernel problem. I yould bet some device driver or hardware failure (memory or hard disk). João Luis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/a155638a0afb7670e3d6669a7904eab5.squir...@nonada.if.usp.br
