On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Timo <timo.bsdm...@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/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
