Re: Quit[] command shuts down frontend, too
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg94461] Re: Quit[] command shuts down frontend, too
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:36:30 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Bergen
- References: <ghtjft$rap$1@smc.vnet.net>
Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: > Dear Group, > > The Quit[] command isn't supposed to shut down the front-end (thus losing new entries since the last Save), so far as i can tell. However, if I have had a session running for several hours, typing Quit[] and evaluating it shuts down Mathematica completely, both the Kernel and Frontend. The same command evaluated just a few minutes into a running session does what it's supposed to (just terminate the Kernel). > Has anyone some hints about this? > > This is on Version "7.0 for Linux x86 (32-bit) (November 11, 2008)"; however, I know it happened with 6.0 for Linux, too (can't remember about the Windows versions). > Most probably it doesn't shut down the front end, but the front end crashes. Annoyingly, the windows of crashing programs often just disappear on Linux, without any indication of what happened. Windows at least pops up a dialog box, saying that the program has crashed.