Re: How to crash the linux console (framebuffer, that is)

Smilax Rotundifolia (smilax@mindmeld.dyn.ml.org)
Mon, 3 Aug 1998 23:07:36 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 3 Aug 1998 bytor@tucka.nmhu.edu wrote:

> I haven't tested this with many different console configs, as I don't
> enjoy fscking my disks and I dont have a ramdisk handy to do it with
:)...
>
> Anyway, here is how to crash it with 100% success on (my) system:
>

Hmm, even without frame buffer devices, the system becomes rather unstable
for me. Several processes give segmentation faults, and most processes
begin to suffer from hanging. I get some Oops messages on the terminal
that ran the process, but I neglected to copy them down.

So it probably isn't fb's fault...

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