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Re:Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance by devopsforlyfe on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:47PM (#16208231)
Apple did it since approximately forever for kernel crashes as well. Anything to avoid any agency and shift the blame onto the user. https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...
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Re:Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance by anonred on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:52PM (#16208281)
From the same page:

> Your computer restarted because of a problem: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

> Your computer was restarted because of a problem: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

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Re:Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance by anyfoo on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:53AM (#16211338)
Isn't that the message you get if you forcefully power off (long-press power) a hanging mac, instead of a panic where it would reboot automatically after the core dump?
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Re:Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance by Karunamon on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:04AM (#16211378)
Yeah, it is. A kernel panic dumps a vague message into the middle of the screen prompting you to reboot, in a bunch of different languages.
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Re:Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance by veidr on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:32AM (#16211940)
But in recent years, it also reboots quickly enough that you'd have to be sitting there watching to catch it.
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