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It’s when the kernel (or drivers) run into a bug. Also known as blue screen of death on the windows side.
by eddythompson80 3y ago
It’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?