From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1102) Cert Prep: 5 Troubleshooting Operating Systems

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Kernel panic

Kernel panic

- The beautiful thing about today's operating systems is that they are designed for trouble. If we have problems that take place with our operating systems, they do nice things like pop up little error codes, put things into our event logs and do stuff like this to help us diagnose and fix things. Usually. Sometimes something goes so horribly, awfully wrong that the operating system goes, "I don't know how to deal with this. Here's your sign." And this is what we call kernel panics. A kernel panic is your operating system going, "I'm about to die. There's nothing I can do about it. Here is one little screen I'm going to put up, bye-bye." Now kernel panics are going to manifest as different ways. For example, with macOS, we have the spinning pinwheel of death, the SPoD and it looks a little something like this. In the Linux operating systems, while there is some variance on kernel panics, here's what one fairly generic…

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