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Ask HN: What is your favorite root cause story?
This comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20043944) got me thinking about strange or elusive root causes of errors. What are your favorite root cause war stories?
- db48x 7y agoUO server would crash because the player's mount could wander around inside their inventory: https://www.raphkoster.com/2014/08/16/random-uo-anecdote-2/ https://www.raphkoster.com/2014/08/16/random-uo-anecdote-2/
- milsebg 7y agoThe classic case of the 500 miles email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
- actionowl 7y agoThat time a deer broke into a datacenter (though... not sure if there was any downtime). https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportgore/comments/aipopo/deer_breaks_into_a_datacenter/ https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportgore/comments/aipopo/dee...