[fedora-java] System freeze when running Eclipse as root

Tom Tromey tromey at redhat.com
Mon Jun 27 14:12:25 UTC 2005


>>>>> "Aidan" == A J Delaney <A.J.Delaney at brighton.ac.uk> writes:

Aidan> 	I know it shouldn't be done, but we ran Eclipse as root.  It seemed to
Aidan> freeze the whole system, mouse pointer, keyboard input etc...  No kernel
Aidan> panic was produced and Eclipse runs fine as a normal user.  Is this well
Aidan> known behaviour for eclipse?

There's a PR for this in case you want to follow it:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152386

Tom




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