Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box
W Paul Mills <wpmills@sound.net> 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...
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