[Ti] very unusual - OS X crash

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 5/1/2003 3:32 AM, Trevor J. Hutley at hutley at geneva-link.ch wrote:

> 
> My IE6 under W98 on Virtual PC6 was blocked.  I could not re-start
> VPC, CTL-ALT-DEL did not work, shut down PC did not work.  So I tried
> force quite VPC.  My cursor locked in position, and my entire Ti-500
> was blocked.    CTL-CMD-PWR was the only way forward.
> 
> A crash like this is so rare that it almost seemed worthy of reporting.
> It made me realise just how solid and robust X (10.2.5) is now.
> A once-a-quarter block becomes almost a novel event.
> Unlike the earlier days of X, if list members recall, when my ISDN
> pc-card was giving me a kernel panic almost every day....

I've seen this on my TiBook when I use the Virtual Switch -- if you have a
terminal window or Process Viewer open, you can end the secondary VPC
process, then safely terminate VPC, otherwise you get a complete lock-up.

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