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"I booted Linux 292,612 times"

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  1. scruffles0
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    tl;dr: the author found a bug in the kernel that made the boot hang and had to boot linux a LOT of times to find which commit did it. this is the link for the kernel mailing list describing the...

    tl;dr: the author found a bug in the kernel that made the boot hang and had to boot linux a LOT of times to find which commit did it.

    this is the link for the kernel mailing list describing the bug https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/6/13/733

    bug is also being tracked in qemu's gitlab https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1696

    related hackernews discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36325986

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