Re: System Panic Makes My Life Easier

On 08/06/2016 02:41 AM, Joseph Brenner wrote:

> You see, the kind of paranoid scenarios I was nursing was
> things like "Uh oh, what if there's some subtle
> incompatibility between systemd and older AMD chips? A lot
> of open source projects are still pretty weak on suites of
> regression tests...".  If I'd grabbed a recent Debian Live
> disk it might not have been different enough from the
> new Debian installation I was worried about.

+ it would exclude your recent upgrades.

> Yes, I could've been more precise about it, but my
> experience is that if you provide loads of detail it puts
> people to sleep and they end up ignoring you.  It's a better
> strategy to go light on detail and just let 'em complain
> later that you don't know how to write a bug report.

Really?

>> Is there no longer even the ability to move the mouse
>> pointer? Or does the mouse pointer move around but you
>> cannot get it to activate menus and do things to screen
>> objects?

> That's an excellent question.  My memory is that I've seen
> both behaviors, but the live-mouse-pointer-that-isn't-useful
> was more common.

Moving the mouse involve a lot of components and that would make you 
think the hardware is OK. While this lower the chances hardware is 
involved it doesn't exclude it. Recent first hand experience: hardware 
can fail in very weird ways. Hardware may even trigger software bugs... 
because generally people that write software don't test it with broken 
hardware ;)

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