Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:46:50 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: timo.bsdmail@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box? Message-ID: <CADGWnjU1KR7dmVBOdUMUPuMBurSe6_GpJABEop=FTFDesKZH=g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E125E12.9050308@gmail.com> References: <4E125E12.9050308@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Timo <timo.bsdmail@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why a faulty desktop application run as unprivileged user is able to >> crash my system? >> >> I mean, I know programs have bugs and sometimes they lead to crashes. >> I'm fine with that. But why a crashing program (for example firefox or >> banshee) is able to kill the whole system? >> >> And by 'crash' or 'kill' i mean that for whatever reason the system is >> frozen and doesn't reply to anything but a hard reset. Can you still log in via ssh from another box? Or at least, can you ping the "frozen" box from the outside? Usually, a frozen system isn't really frozen, it's just Xorg which is. And that's often related to buggy graphics drivers. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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