#5828 HIGH Never A: Rotating the screen causes a "hot reboot"-style global system crash.

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#5828: Rotating the screen causes a "hot reboot"-style global system crash.
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 Reporter:  legutierr  |       Owner:  jg                               
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                              
 Priority:  high       |   Milestone:  Never Assigned                   
Component:  distro     |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:             |    Verified:  0                                
 Blocking:             |   Blockedby:                                   
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 Rotating the screen causes a "hot reboot"-style global system crash.

 Press the rotate-screen button a number of times, building up a good
 buffer of un-executed rotate instructions.  Keep pressing.  The system
 crashes, rebooting/resetting the os (sugar?) without rebooting the
 hardware, in a manner similar to a ctrl-alt-erase combination.

 Although inducing this behavior on a recently rebooted xo requires a *lot*
 of pressing of the rotate button in rapid succession, it does not take as
 much effort to induce this if there are several activities open
 (especially Write) and if the clipboard is full.

 This behavior was induced in joyride-1492.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5828>
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