Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out

From: Anders Johansson (andjoh_at_rydsbo.net)
Date: 10/12/04

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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:27:06 +0200

    On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 22.17, Randall R Schulz wrote:
    > Richard,
    >
    > On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:31, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:
    > > ...
    > >
    > > Hmmnn. Well on my amd64, Opera regularly causes a complete freeze on
    > > my system, while Netscape at worst just crashes. Netscape 7.1 seems
    > > pretty good, whatever its provenance.
    >
    > I hope you realize that symptoms of this sort (system freeze) cannot be
    > pinned on Opera or on any user-level code. When a system with protected
    > memory exhibits gross, system-wide failures, it is by definition a bug in
    > some privileged code (kernel or driver, e.g.) or a failure of some
    > hardware component.

    It depends. Since X controls all input devices and output when it's active, a
    total X freeze can be indistinguishable from a total system freeze. For all
    practical purposes, it *is* a total system freeze, unless you can reach the
    system through ssh or similar, or can use a magic sysrq to kill it or
    something. This is the most common "system crash" in linux. 

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