Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Rustad <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans? | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:32:57 -0600 |
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On Jan 24, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Alan wrote:
>> I am going to assume that you are being facaetious, because it >> would be the rarified pinnacle of >> supreme arrogance to suggest that a cosmic ray event is a more >> likely explanation than a bug in >> the kernel. > > A one off non repeatable error experienced by two people out of the > millions using it does fit the cosmic ray description quite well. > That's > not to say there isn't a bug, but you don't have enough data to even > begin debugging it unless its rather more reproducable.
Exactly. Halting use of a version of the kernel based on a single incident provides no insight to the source of the problem. It could be anything...
-- Mark Rustad, MRustad@mac.com
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