http://phairoh.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/ubuntu-bsod-blue-screen-of-death/ ramblings from an absent mind Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:33:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://phairoh.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/ubuntu-bsod-blue-screen-of-death/#comment-6 BlackFlag » Easy Linux Leads to Dumb Users Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:56:55 +0000 https://phairoh.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/ubuntu-bsod-blue-screen-of-death/#comment-6 [...] Phairoh made an interesting post on his blog entitled ‘Ubuntu BSOD.’ In it he recounts the dreadful experience of having his X-server die and luckily it being fixed with an update. The very fact that he equated not being able to start X (a fixable problem wherein most of the system is still usable) with the dreaded M$ blue screen of death (from which there is no return) is revealing. It brought to a head in my mind an uneasiness I’ve been having with the new generation of linux users who never had to cut their teeth on the console in order to just get a working linux system up and running. Their expectations are much different it seems than those of us who learned linux prior to the year 2000. [...] [...] Phairoh made an interesting post on his blog entitled ‘Ubuntu BSOD.’ In it he recounts the dreadful experience of having his X-server die and luckily it being fixed with an update. The very fact that he equated not being able to start X (a fixable problem wherein most of the system is still usable) with the dreaded M$ blue screen of death (from which there is no return) is revealing. It brought to a head in my mind an uneasiness I’ve been having with the new generation of linux users who never had to cut their teeth on the console in order to just get a working linux system up and running. Their expectations are much different it seems than those of us who learned linux prior to the year 2000. [...]

]]> http://phairoh.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/ubuntu-bsod-blue-screen-of-death/#comment-5 Paul Betts Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:23:03 +0000 https://phairoh.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/ubuntu-bsod-blue-screen-of-death/#comment-5 This was a known bug with an update to Xorg that was put out; if you weren't able to fix it in that manner, you can often read /var/log/Xorg.0.log and you can usually get a handle on what's happened This was a known bug with an update to Xorg that was put out; if you weren’t able to fix it in that manner, you can often read /var/log/Xorg.0.log and you can usually get a handle on what’s happened

]]> http://phairoh.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/ubuntu-bsod-blue-screen-of-death/#comment-4 vk Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:58:15 +0000 https://phairoh.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/ubuntu-bsod-blue-screen-of-death/#comment-4 I've only seen this once before, myself. Oddly enough, it was on Ubuntu as well. I’ve only seen this once before, myself. Oddly enough, it was on Ubuntu as well.

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