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My bus crashed 🥀 (pawb.social)

submitted 5 days ago by german@pawb.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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I wonder how ancient of a kernel it has and how many wonderful exploits can be run against it

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[–] JATothrim_v2@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago

The disk is likely dead... The kernel is stuck doing I/O with a spinlock held. The NMI watchdog fired/timeouted because of this. The watchdog is supposed to cause a reboot, but if the HW is dead, the system will boot loop.