Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box
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...
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