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Kernel tinification

Kernel tinification

Posted Aug 31, 2014 9:49 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Kernel tinification by etienne
Parent article: Kernel tinification

We had our induction hob fitted as part of our new kitchen some six years ago, and how's *this* for an obscure bug!!!

We repeatedly had the same issue as you, soft crashes requiring a hard reset to fix. So we called in the engineer under warranty to fix it.

He looked outside, and said "Are you under a flight path?". We are, about three or four miles from City Airport, almost right under the normal approach. So the engineer said, "it's a well known problem, the flight avionics interfere with the controller. You'll need a new controller." He replaced it and it's been fine ever since ...

Cheers,
Wol


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Kernel tinification

Posted Aug 31, 2014 10:37 UTC (Sun) by Fowl (subscriber, #65667) [Link]

Welcome to the future!

Kernel tinification

Posted Sep 9, 2014 9:06 UTC (Tue) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

How history repeats itself.

I haven't the reference ready, but I think it was in CACM's "Inside Risks" column, late in the last century: some computer at a port (of the naval kind) crashed repeatedly. It took some time to realize that the crashes came at a bi-weekly schedule. From there it was relatiely easy to correlate the crashes with the (regular) arrival of one military ship: its radar machinery confused the electronics of said computer.


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