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October 24, 2006

Involuntary Reboot log #6

This time it was my fault, kind of. Trying to do some low-level Mach stuff to work around a bug in Mac OS X, I ran into a different bug in Mac OS X, and this one was enough to cause a kernel panic. From a regular unprivileged process. Ouch. A strong deterrent from continuing that line of development...

Involuntary reboot stats to date

• Operating system version: 10.4.8
• Kernel panics: 6
• Hard resets: 0
• Total failures: 6
• Start of recording keeping: 21 May 2006
• Total days to date: 156 days
• Average time between failures: 26 days
• Uptime at moment of failure(s): Several days

As per usual I used the interactive Ruby interpreter, irb, to do the date calculations for me:

require 'date'
today = Date.today
start = Date.new(2006, 5, 21)
today - start
156 / 6

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Posted by wincent at October 24, 2006 6:50 PM