Re: slrn crash -- froze everything
Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>:
> A couple weeks ago I had a problem while using slrn, with an error
> wriitng to file after I tried to exit. The input/output error messages
> I got suggested a hard drive problem, but that came to nothing. The
> whole thing was discussed in another thread here.
>
> A few days ago I tried to start slrn with a different news-server (one
> which I hadn't yet created a .jnewsrc file for, my mistake). This
> immediately froze the whole system - no cursor movement, no keyboard
> shortcuts, no access to a text terminal with C-A-F1. I had to power
> off to get control back. Unfortunately, I've been working round the
> clock in the lab, and didn't have time to immediatley sniff around for
> clues or call for help.
>
> I properly created the .jnewsrc file, and I haven't had a problem
> since. However, I'm concerned that I've now had two system-wide
> crashes while using slrn. I didn't think this sort of thing was
> possible with Linux. Is it possible for a bug in slrn to crash my
> whole system? If not, any clues for chasing down the source of these
Not with as little you've told us, sorry. I've been using slrn since
the mid-'90s, and never saw anything like this. This is very non-*nix
behaviour. What is your network connection based on; perhaps a
Winmodem? Do you use Firefox? What else can you tell us? Hardware,
Debian release, ...
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