Re: Killing the whole system



On 2001.03.20 14:40:00 +0000 Julian M Catchen wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have now had this happen several times, while using Balsa 1.1.1.
> 
> On startup, when I attempt to either open a mailbox or compose a new
> message, Balsa hangs my entire system. The mouse doesn't move, can't switch
> to another virtual termainal, can't kill the Xserver, nothing.
> 
> When it dies, it always leaves the hard drive light bright red as if it was
> trying to read or write fromteh hard disk and encountered some type of race
> condition.
> 
> Anyone know anything about this?  Anyone had a similar experience?
> 

No! This ShouldNotHappen in unix at all :) Could you post more details ?
(distro, kernel, gcc, libc, gnome) 

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