Re: I didn't think you could crash Linux like that!

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 08:38, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Adam,
> 
> I'm glad you were able to continue through a serial port. Just a few hours 
> ago my Linux locked up because I pressed a wrong kex combination. Again I 
> had to hit the panic (reset) button. Where's Linux's vaunted stability? 

The X server, because it does deep video stuff, must speak at very low
levels to the kernel and hence can lock up the machine- there is little
to no way for the kernel to make that more stable. Obviously, the X
server should also have rock-solid robustness, but I dare say that you
all are doing things to the X servers that in many cases have never
actually been tested before, so you're bound to run into edge cases. 

If you can repeatably hang your X server with a specific key combo or
something like that in gnopernicus, I strongly recommend filing bugs at
http://bugs.xfree86.org/.

Good luck-
Luis

> on the other hand, I've had Linux run for two months without rebooting.
> 
> John
>  On 
> Sat, 24 May 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:
> 
> > Well, I just tried it again with another computer on a serial port, and
> > that computer was able to still log in and I was able to reboot cleanly
> > from the serial port.  My suspicion is that something somewhere locks up
> > the keyboard so that you can't switch consoles.  I wonder if it is
> > Gnopernicus or something else which is doing this?
> > 
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