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Orion has actually triggered two kernel panics for me in the past week. It's easy on battery life though, so I've been using it still when I'm on the go.
by jd3 3y ago
Orion has actually triggered two kernel panics for me in the past week. It's easy on battery life though, so I've been using it still when I'm on the go.
- freediver 3y agoWhat is a kernel panic?
- eddythompson80 3y agoIt’s when the kernel (or drivers) run into a bug. Also known as blue screen of death on the windows side.
- freediver 3y agoI never seen that on a Mac though.
- jeffhuys 3y agoOk. Well, it does happen. Happened a lot more in the past vs now.
- al_borland 3y agoThey are more rare one current versions of macOS. I’ve been using Mac’s for about 20 years and got them a lot a lot in the early days.
- gbear605 3y agoThey used to happen all the time with Mac OS 9 and earlier, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen them with OSX/macOS.
- KMag 3y agoI definitely had a corrupted CD-R backup that would kernel panic OS X, Windows 2000, and Linux, circa 2003. Though, most of my OS X kernel panics were due to a GPU slowly going bad and randomly corrupting memory (both under OS X and Linux, when in a particular graphics mode). QNX is the only OS that I've pushed hard and never seen a kernel panic. BeOS was nice in that my (userspace) ethernet driver would crash overnight most nights, and I'd wake up to a prompt saying "I'm going to restart the crashed driver? Okay?", but I could reliably kernel panic BeOS with some dodgy semaphore code in userspace.
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- eddythompson80 3y agoIt happens on Mac. It's when you get an infinite spinning beachball. Sometimes called beachball of death, but generally called kernel panic on Unix systems. Most of the time with Macs it starts happening when you have hardware failure. It happens way more on Windows and Linux because of the much larger range of supported devices and drivers and the varying quality of the drivers for them. Most drivers running in Darwin as made by Apple. It's also the reason Microsoft created a certification program for device drivers for Windows.
- bmacho 3y agoThen userland programs triggering kernel panics are good, since they make your kernels more bugfree and secure, aren't they?
- Beijinger 3y agoA kernel panic is, when your computer presses the panic button and stops to work.
- saagarjha 3y agoHow do you know Orion is causing it? Typically this indicates a kernel bug.
- frizlab 3y agoLast time I had kernel panics was because I had hardware issues. I doubt Orion is causing this.
- jd3 3y agoI actually think it has something to do with webkit and the fact that I use Quartz Debug to disable vsync at all times. I'll try to repro, but anecdotally speaking, my M1 MacBook Pro restarted when I was doing something in the Orion browser and spit out the typical kernel panic "Send to Apple" dialog upon reboot.
- cannonpalms 3y agoI'm not very familiar with this space, so perhaps someone could explain this to me. I was under the impression that a kernel panic indicates a problem at the kernel level, not in userland. Is it not the goal of most/all kernels to insulate themselves from userland mistakes?