I have often seen lockup in this situation too, both with Mozilla
(roughly late summer) and Netscape 4.0x; but in my case the X server
(SVGA with matrox driver) was not dead, it just didn't react to input
any more. Killing the offending application from a network login
restored the state back to normal.
> Nevertheless, I consider this as an obvious evidence that there is a bug
> in Linux kernel: application shouldn't be able to crash the system,
> kernel should throw an application away if it tries to do something nasty.
Yes, but X servers directly access the hardware, which makes them
inherently more dangerous.
Olaf
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