[OLUG] well, I finally did it

[tetherow at nol.org]

On  7 Feb, Adam Lassek wrote:
> I actually managed to crash Linux. It was Mozilla surprise, surprise.
> That is the /last/ time I ever use a nightly build...
> 
> I'm just browsing away with Mozilla, and all of a sudden the performance
> of my system hit a brick wall--hard drives grinding away constantly,
> system moving slower than could probably be measured. I tried killing
> the process, and the entire system hung beyong ctrl-alt-del even.
> Actually, this has happened several times before but has never required
> a reset.

Actually that technically is a problem with X not Mozilla.  Unless of
course you were running Mozilla as root.

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Sam Tetherow                           tetherow at nol.org
Director of Development
Nebrask@ Online                        http://www.nol.org/



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