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Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted..

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On 03/18/15 12:24, Aragorn wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 March 2015 14:38, The Natural Philosopher conveyed the

[putolin]

>
> That's a tricky one.  Most of X11 ─ and specifically, the desktop
> environment ─ runs quite monolithically, and it all communicates with
> your graphics adapter through the video driver.  It is possible for an
> application ─ and quite probably so with things like Adobe's Flash
> Player plugin ─ to crash and bring down the whole desktop with it.
>
> When the standard runlevel is 5 ─ i.e. the runlevel in which the machine
> boots up to a graphical login screen ─ is active, this will then trigger
> an automatic restart of the X server (and by consequence, the desktop
> environment running on top of it).


If it was a init based system that is true.  It most likely is a systemd 
machine.  Since I don't use linux any more ( moved to freebsd ) I don't 
know how systemd would respond.  It should most likely restart X but who 
knows.

>
>> It was synchronous with trying to access a particular web page in
>> Firefox, but that is all.
>
> My money would be on the Flash Player plugin.
>
>
>> After relogging in the web page was just fine.
>
> It may have been a glitch ─ an unfortunate combination of circumstances,
> caused by an innocuous bug somewhere, which only gets triggered when
> certain conditions are all met.
>

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GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-18 13:38 +0000
  Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-03-18 07:19 -0700
    Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-03-18 17:01 +0000
  Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-18 17:24 +0100
    Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> - 2015-03-18 16:34 -0400
      Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-03-18 16:52 -0400
      Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-18 22:27 +0100
        Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-19 09:45 +0000
          Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-19 18:59 +0100
            Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-19 18:43 +0000
          Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-03-20 08:19 +1100
  Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2015-03-18 18:05 +0000
    Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-18 18:51 +0000
      Re: GUI terminated suddenly and restarted.. J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-03-18 20:41 +0000

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