RE: Instabilities in GDM

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

frame buffer console should help also :)
(assuming the buffer modules dont crash the box)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gleef [SMTP:dzol@virtual-yellow.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 31, 1999 3:58 PM
> To:	Fox, Kevin M
> Cc:	'Richard C. Thrapp'; GNOME-List
> Subject:	RE: Instabilities in GDM
> 
> 
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> > X does lock the console sometimes... but never the network. :)
> > If it is on a network, you can at least telnet in to shut it down.
> 
> On an older release of XFree86, I've had it lock the kernel once, telnet
> didn't work, ctrl-alt-del didn't even work.  That's the trouble with
> complex setuid binaries, they can do lots of damage.  XFree version 4
> sounds like a much cleaner design, hopefully such problems will fade into
> distant memory then.
> 
> -Gleef