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The first versions of the Dreamliner had some kind of software bug that ended up generating a requirement of a hard reboot every X hours until it could be fixed
by ricardobeat 3y ago
The first versions of the Dreamliner had some kind of software bug that ended up generating a requirement of a hard reboot every X hours until it could be fixed. I don’t know if I would have the guts to board the plane after seeing that!
- bombcar 3y agoIt was a timer that overflowed, I think, and nobody had left the plane "on" without shutting it down for whatever time it took to overflow. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/8548-reboot-your-dreamliner-every-248-days-to-avoid-integer-overflow.html https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/8548-reboot-... To be fair, 248 days is quite a long time.