I've seen Speakup hang the boot. I've seen kernel panics around Speakup. I've never seen Speakup trash the file system, which I think is what's being said here. Janina Littlefield, Tyler writes: > This whole story sounds like it needs another couple of bears to make it all > interesting. So speakup crashed the kernel. I've had issues, but apart from > known bugs I've never seen speakup panic the kernel all the time. Speakup > caused a system to crash? Perhaps. People should also backup their work. > On 10/9/2014 9:34 AM, Deedra Waters wrote: > >Janina, > > > >speakup was the cause because when bossman came down to hook up a > >monitor and look, the panick messages had something to do with speakup. > > > >As for backing up their work, they were trying to fix their fuck-up to > >begin with. The initial problem wasn't with speakup. However when i was > >helping them debug it, speakup made the kernel panick and crash. > > > >Debian i dont think likes people with root access on their box to begin > >with, but i think they kind of didn't like speakup in their kernel to > >begin with. > > > >I suspect on the other hand that if speakup was a user-space app, it > >wouldn't have mattered to them so much. If a userspace program crashes > >it doesn't take down the whole box. When speakup does though, it takes > >down the whole box. > > > > > > > -- > Take care, > Ty > http://tds-solutions.net > He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
