Comment by justsid

9 years ago

Similarly: Kernel bugs! Once upon a time I spend a good week trying to reproduce a rare crash one of our users saw ever so often (just enough to get our attention, but not enough to get a repro case). Stack traces made no sense and just in general the whole crash made no sense the more I looked at it. Turns out it was a bug in XNUs pthread subsystem, a part where I would have never looked if it weren‘t for desperation, because, well, it‘s the kernel, it works, right?

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wbl  9 years ago

Emacs would regularly panic the kernel on one OS X version when I opened preview to look at a pdf and had TeX recompile.

  • inferiorhuman  9 years ago

    The DVD player on OSX with a MacBook (polycarbonate ones) would occasionally cause a kernel panic if you had 4GB of RAM installed.