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Dev Boots Linux 292,612 Times to Find Kernel Bug - Slashdot

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Long-time Slashdot reader waspleg shared this story from Hot Hardware: Red Hat Linux developer Richard WM Jones has shared an eyebrow raising tale of Linux bug hunting. Jones noticed that Linux 6.4 has a bug which means it will hang on boot about 1 in 1,000 times. Jones set out to pinpoint the bug,...

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Follow up to “I booted Linux 292,612 times”

Well that blew up. It was supposed to be just a silly off-the-cuff comment about how some bugs are very tedious to bisect. To answer a few questions people had, here’s what actually happened.…

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