WTF happened with linux kernel 4.15.0-54? Kernel panic on my lap top?

Maybe you watched the unlikely event of a memory bit flip caused by cosmic radiation - rare but still possible.

Of course a programming.maybe issue fixed in later versions might also be the cause as well.

Really 4.15? It's EOL.

@sbiewald I blame the cosmic rays more often that I should, honestly.

How do we even still get kernel panics? Had one today on Mac too caused by virtualbox. Wtf. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@sbiewald not exactly ancient. At work we have to support RHEL 5.. and I think even current CentOS is still on 3.10 kernel.
Luckily the 4.15.0.52 kernel was still there and boots. Problem persisted through an apt remove/install of the problematic kernel, so I'd exclude cosmic rays.

@badcopnodonuts BSOD's on VM on macOS also not uncommon for me.
On the physical machine tho

@phorkyas No ancient, but still EOL.

3.16
4.4
4.9
4.14
4.19
are the still supported LTS versions.

@sbiewald Googled it too. 3.10 is dead also. Seems distros don't care "bout which vanilla kernel is LTS?

@phorkyas Debian uses 4.9 and 4.19.
I guess 3.10 was the old LTS, but CentOS does not get new releases very often and back ports fixes to older versions.

4.15's working flawlessly for me, if a tad slow on bootup... (Linux Mint, Kali and Debian Buster repos added for some semblance of updated packages)