What do you really expect to happen? This program is an infinite cicle so of course the system will crash.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libcanberra in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1101055 Title: Simple C program freezes entire system Status in elementary OS: Confirmed Status in Gala Window Manager: Invalid Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “libcanberra” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Wrote simple C program to beep by infinitely outputting "\a" and upon launch it locks the entire system up. Source code is included. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2 Package: elementary-desktop 1.292-0~366~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-36.57-generic 3.2.35 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-36-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15+elementary3~precise1 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: elementary_meta Date: Thu Jan 17 22:31:34 2013 InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: elementary-meta SuspiciousXErrors: ThirdParty: True UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1101055/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp