How often does your Linux box crash?

[oz]

I don't mean how often does an application crash, but how often does the entire OS crash and you have to reboot?

For me, it's never. I've been using Linux for about 6 years now and have never had a full OS crash, although I have a couple of instances where an application would crash. Actually, I haven't even had that in quite some time.

BTW - three OS crashes in a row on a Windows box this morning inspired this poll...

[techieMoe]

Depends on what I'm dicking around with. The OS itself isn't at fault most of the time with me, I just like to play with things I probably shouldn't and I end up freezing up the system.

[Curlydave]

I don't think it's downright crashed more than once or twice, but It's really easy to get it not to load up right after a restart. (like moe, I often play with things that I shouldn't or don't know how to.)

[Workaphobia]

Occassionally, when I switch to a terminal via ctrl+alt+f[?] for a while, and then come back to my X session, the system will crash. Actually it's not totally stalled - although the screen remains a stubborn black, I can still log in via ssh and perform certain tasks (but not change the init level). I believe this is an nvidia kernel module bug but it doesn't happen often enough to tick me off too much, so I let it slide.

[bigtomrodney]

I can say the only time I had a genuine system crash was after my system was compromised when I was messing around with wireless. That's once in two years. And I mess around a lot. However the Xserver has crashed a lot of times in that period. Crashes occur seriously when using composite parts of xorg, transucencly etc. The real problem is that mouse works, screen freezes and keyboard is ignored so I can't flick to a VT.Really sucks, because I'm really looking forward to all of the new graphical effects.

[Vash]

Linux itself has never crashed, X on the other hand at least 10 times.

[techieMoe]

Linux itself has never crashed, X on the other hand at least 10 times.

Haha. Yeah, I have more trouble with X than Linux myself. Most of my freezes are just X freezes, but since my keyboard and mouse don't respond I have no choice but to reboot. I think Xorg could use some serious development work...

[Morgoth]

My Linux system crashes more than my WIndows XP box did in years.

[a12ctic]

my x crashes oftenly, the os never does

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

well, i was making a shell script to run rkhunter easily. my problem being that i need to run as root. at the time i didn't know where root's binaries are kept so i saved it in /usr/local/bin tried it and nothing ran. i then copied the shell script to /usr/bin. ran it. well, the rkhunter executable has the directory /usr/local/bin/rkhunter. take a guess what happened...