Re:The Power of Power Cycling
by burnte on Monday August 24, 2015 @03:10AM
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In this thread: Lots of people criticizing a perfectly valid first diagnostic step that they all use frequently. Yes, we all know that it's not a FIX for some long term problem, but frequently you're looking at a simple confluence of rare events that caused an issue that can be resolved by resetting the system to a known state. If the issue continues with a frequency that is troubling, then you move on to other steps, but if you fire up a kernel debugger and bus sniffer every time you have a minor glitch, you're wasting time. And I wager everyone commenting otherwise knows that.
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I don't see many people criticising here quite frankly.
As per your comment, you are right: if there is a kernel bug and you'd rather restart your computer to quickly get back to what you were doing and avoid distraction, all good.
If you are part of a kernel engineering team and you quickly restart your computer and pretend it never happened then maybe you didn't give your best shot.
And I wager everyone commenting otherwise knows that.
Not really. If it happens once, it can / will happen again. In my opinion a bug is a bug and should be fixed. But I do agree this attitude does seem prevalent.