On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 21:01 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > severity 616301 critical > thanks No, not unless it will affect a large proportion of users. > My system locks up whenever I click on a YouTube video link since > yesterday. I can probably live without YouTube :), but in any case this > shouldn't happen. > > This isn't a singled out case nor in exotic, possibly faulty, hardware. > It's on a standard 1½-year old Dell OptiPlex 780 desktop with a Radeon > HD card (one of the standard configurations) and this is on a stock > squeeze system. > > The findings so far seem to suggest this is a Mesa issue; I'd probably > file it under "Linux kernel bugs" (or even DoS bugs) but I'm not sure > where to properly file such bugs in the post-KMS stack world. If there is a kernel driver involved then it should be assigned to the kernel. Even without KMS, a Mesa driver should be considered untrusted and should not be able to trigger a crash or hang. With KMS, this applies to the X driver too. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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