From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 Description of problem: I installed FlexLM to manage floating licenses for the microimages X server from ftp://ftp.microimages.com/pub/mix/flexlm-linux.tar.gz, with the following license dat file: SERVER cosmos.phy.tufts.edu 009027dc4ccd USE_SERVER VENDOR lmdmcrimgs "/usr/local/flexlm/lmdmcrimgs" FEATURE mix lmdmcrimgs 4.000 permanent 10 0 ck=3D172 The hostID is correct for the machine, but the checksum for the product is not the right one, because we sent them the wrong hostID when we got a license. When I started lmgrd as root, my machine became totally wedged: no mouse tracking, no return of ICMP echoes, no response to Ctl-Alt-Del, etc. Of course I don't know what the program is doing, and it was running as root, so it could be a program error, but I suspect a kernel problem. The problem occurs on more than one machine (with the correct machine name and hostID in the file) and in both 7.1 and 7.2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See description 2. 3. Additional info:
which kernel was this ? and running unknown stuff as root indeed can just hang your box... root has that power
The kernel is 2.4.18-27.7. It could of course be a problem with the program. I am reporting it also to Microimages. The reason that I suspect a kernel problem is that one wouldn't think the normal stuff that would be in a program to read files and check license codes would lead to crashes. But of course I understand that there's no limit to the ability of some random programmer at some other company to screw up.
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