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Package: base
Severity: normal
Hi, I'm new to linux and I wanted to experiment as much as possible.
I entered a (possible foolish) command into my GNOME terminal emulator running
as root:
'cat /dev/port'
The screen filled up very quickly with gibberish (as I expected), but then the
computer froze completely.
Mouse didn't work, no virtual consoles accessible and so on.
Ctrl + C didn't bring be back to a bash prompt.
Not a biggie, I don't think, but in case it's something that needs fixing, I
will report it.
Thanks,
Nick.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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--- Begin Message ---
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 21:17:59 +1000, Nicholas wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi, I'm new to linux and I wanted to experiment as much as possible.
> I entered a (possible foolish) command into my GNOME terminal emulator
> running as root:
> 'cat /dev/port'
> The screen filled up very quickly with gibberish (as I expected), but then
> the computer froze completely.
> Mouse didn't work, no virtual consoles accessible and so on.
> Ctrl + C didn't bring be back to a bash prompt.
>
> Not a biggie, I don't think, but in case it's something that needs fixing, I
> will report it.
>
'cat /dev/port' accesses random io ports on the machine, I don't think
crashing when you do this is a bug.
Cheers,
Julien
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