Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
<assirati@nonada.if.usp.br> wrote:
>> 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.
Some time ago (at least 9-12 months, I think) in Sid, I was getting
regular lockups of Xorg from to Flash, or even just Mozilla itself.
These do not generally lock up the system completely, but you either
have to SSH in from another computer or use the power button (soft off
or hard reset), as the X lock up prevented input from working (even
ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt-F1). A few times it managed to get the
kernel, and I could not SSH or soft off.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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