A look into what causes kernel panics and some utilities to help gain more information. Working in a Linux environment, how often have you seen a kernel panic? When it happens, your system is left in ...

As many kernel developers and hackers have known for years, loadable/unloadable kernel modules (like user-space applications) are almost never bug-free. With the continuing use and development of ...

Microsoft released a new version of the WinDbg debugger tool for Windows, a very popular utility among developers and system administrators working in investigating crash reports, and debugging BSODs ...

How do I use WinDBG Debugger to troubleshoot a Blue Screen of Death? Your email has been sent By Jacky Howe Have you ever wondered how to obtain extra information ...

As with many Linux-related topics, the issue of using debuggers to troubleshoot the Linux kernel is not only technical--it's political. Linux is being mostly developed on the x86 platform, which does ...

It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

Windows 8 has been out for a while, featuring an interface that’s as cool as it is annoying . . . until you get the hang of it. But, like any computer operating system, it can fall over. Luckily, ...

Everything is perfect; you’ve upgraded to Windows 7. It’s fully patched, all drivers are updated, security is tight, maybe you even have new hardware…yet the old Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) taunts you ...

A system crash: If you’re lucky, it only ruins your day. More than likely, you’re in for several bad days followed by a few stressful weeks or months. After all, systems rarely fail only once. Rather, ...

Intel(R) System Studio Developer Story : With XDB and MinnowBoard MAX , how to debug exception errors in the Android-Linux-Kernel. In this article, we can see how to ...