[fedora-java] System freeze when running Eclipse as root

[Andrew Haley]

A.J.Delaney at brighton.ac.uk writes:
 > Hey all,
 > 	I know it shouldn't be done, but we ran Eclipse as root.  It seemed to
 > freeze the whole system, mouse pointer, keyboard input etc...  No kernel
 > panic was produced and Eclipse runs fine as a normal user.  Is this well
 > known behaviour for eclipse?

Yeah, we know.  I'm hoping to get together this week with one of the
kernel architects to debug the problem.

Andrew.