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Linux distros are about to get killer Windows feature: The Blue Screen of Death

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Re: Linux distros are about to get killer Windows feature: The Blue Screen of Death

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Post by eternityforest »

herewulf wrote: post #18

This is such a pointless feature. I have several daily driver Linux systems. They run for months at a time, sometimes years. The only time I see a kernel panic is if the hardware is bad or I did something wrong (misconfiguration). Years ago I had a dual boot system with bad RAM and on Windows it would regularly blue screen, on Linux it was fine. Took a long time to figure out what the actual problem was because Linux…

Bad hardware exists though. And if hardware goes bad you're already in a stressful situation and probably don't want any extra work to fix it.

Re: Linux distros are about to get killer Windows feature: The Blue Screen of Death

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Post by Am4TIfIsER0ppos »

SushiHippie wrote: post #8
ElijahLynn wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v255 "A new component "systemd-bsod" has been added, which can show logged error messages full screen, if they have a log level of LOG_EMERG log level. This component is experimental and its public interface is subject to change." First step is to log something with LOG_EMERG level. Then maybe make the system crash?

I just tried the repro steps for this issue [0]. Which seem to be the same as the test suite does it [1]. But nothing happens :/ [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/29478 [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/test/units/test... EDIT: just found an image, of how it looks https://0x0.st/H3qM.png

What am I supposed to scan a qr code with if my computer just crashed?

Re: Linux distros are about to get killer Windows feature: The Blue Screen of Death

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Post by itishappy »

Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #22
SushiHippie wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just tried the repro steps for this issue [0]. Which seem to be the same as the test suite does it [1]. But nothing happens :/ [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/29478 [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/test/units/test... EDIT: just found an image, of how it looks https://0x0.st/H3qM.png

What am I supposed to scan a qr code with if my computer just crashed?

You use your computer to scan QR codes? How?

I've always assumed most people use their phone where the cameras have QR functionality built in.

Re: Linux distros are about to get killer Windows feature: The Blue Screen of Death

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Post by ElijahLynn »

Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #22
SushiHippie wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just tried the repro steps for this issue [0]. Which seem to be the same as the test suite does it [1]. But nothing happens :/ [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/29478 [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/test/units/test... EDIT: just found an image, of how it looks https://0x0.st/H3qM.png

What am I supposed to scan a qr code with if my computer just crashed?

By using the phones camera app.

Re: Linux distros are about to get killer Windows feature: The Blue Screen of Death

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Post by PrayagBhakar »

herewulf wrote: post #18

This is such a pointless feature. I have several daily driver Linux systems. They run for months at a time, sometimes years. The only time I see a kernel panic is if the hardware is bad or I did something wrong (misconfiguration). Years ago I had a dual boot system with bad RAM and on Windows it would regularly blue screen, on Linux it was fine. Took a long time to figure out what the actual problem was because Linux…

Not everyone runs Linux systems like a Sys Admin. Some folks use it to play games on their steamdeck or to give live to older hardware that can’t run windows/osx anymore. Others don’t even care what they’re running as long as it can open chrome.

BSOD is very clearly an end user feature for folks who don’t have experience debugging kernel panics. If the QR code can generate a copy passable stack trace of the error the it could help make linux more mainstream and easier to debug for non technical folks.

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