What’s the best way to trigger a kernel panic?

https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/17lwdve/whats_the_best_way_to_trigger_a_kernel_panic/

I wanna scare the ever living hell out of my brother as a late Halloween joke. I have backed up everything 3 · 16 Comments Section u/michaelpaoli avatar michaelpaoli • 2y ago

Perhaps just suitable image from xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod and display that, or other image(s) that can be found. 8 8 u/michaelpaoli avatar michaelpaoli • 2y ago

Perhaps just suitable image from xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod and display that, or other image(s) that can be found. 8 faxattack • 2y ago

Maybe just dont 6 faxattack • 2y ago

Maybe just dont 6 6 faxattack • 2y ago

Maybe just dont 6 u/ipsirc avatar ipsirc • 2y ago

echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

more ways: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/terminal-kernel-panic 4 4 u/ipsirc avatar ipsirc • 2y ago

echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

more ways: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/terminal-kernel-panic 4 schakalsynthetc • 2y ago

don’t panic, do a variation on terrify suzy 3 schakalsynthetc • 2y ago

don’t panic, do a variation on terrify suzy 3 3 schakalsynthetc • 2y ago

don’t panic, do a variation on terrify suzy 3 u/NullPointerJunkie avatar NullPointerJunkie • 2y ago

Get the Linux kernel source code and insert a panic() call at the appropriate place, compile source code and have the system default to booting your “joke” kernel. 3 3 u/NullPointerJunkie avatar NullPointerJunkie • 2y ago

Get the Linux kernel source code and insert a panic() call at the appropriate place, compile source code and have the system default to booting your “joke” kernel. 3 u/m_z_s avatar m_z_s • 2y ago

Maybe just play with their icons ? ( e.g. NSFW - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGljemfwUE - NSFW) 2 2 u/m_z_s avatar m_z_s • 2y ago

Maybe just play with their icons ? ( e.g. NSFW - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGljemfwUE - NSFW) 2 u/nookfoo avatar nookfoo • 2y ago

fork bomb should be good, though probably wont kernel panic 0 0 u/nookfoo avatar nookfoo • 2y ago

fork bomb should be good, though probably wont kernel panic 0 dado_b981 • 2y ago

If you have backed up everything, don’t bother with kernel panics, just put

alias ls="sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /"

to his ~/.bashrc. -2 u/smdth_567 avatar smdth_567 • 2y ago

that’s a terrible idea unless op actually tested restoring from that backup. 6 NotDukkoYT OP • 2y ago

Don’t worry, it’s bootable. What I mean my backup is literally copying the entire drive onto a different one. 1 dado_b981 • 2y ago

If you have backed up everything, don’t bother with kernel panics, just put

alias ls="sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /"

to his ~/.bashrc. -2 u/smdth_567 avatar smdth_567 • 2y ago

that’s a terrible idea unless op actually tested restoring from that backup. 6 NotDukkoYT OP • 2y ago

Don’t worry, it’s bootable. What I mean my backup is literally copying the entire drive onto a different one. 1 -2 u/smdth_567 avatar smdth_567 • 2y ago

that’s a terrible idea unless op actually tested restoring from that backup. 6 NotDukkoYT OP • 2y ago

Don’t worry, it’s bootable. What I mean my backup is literally copying the entire drive onto a different one. 1 6 NotDukkoYT OP • 2y ago

Don’t worry, it’s bootable. What I mean my backup is literally copying the entire drive onto a different one. 1 NotDukkoYT OP • 2y ago

Don’t worry, it’s bootable. What I mean my backup is literally copying the entire drive onto a different one. 1 1 dado_b981 • 2y ago

If you have backed up everything, don’t bother with kernel panics, just put

alias ls="sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /"

to his ~/.bashrc. -2 u/smdth_567 avatar smdth_567 • 2y ago

that’s a terrible idea unless op actually tested restoring from that backup. 6 NotDukkoYT OP • 2y ago

Don’t worry, it’s bootable. What I mean my backup is literally copying the entire drive onto a different one. 1 spots_reddit • 2y ago

So you chose violence…. 1 spots_reddit • 2y ago

So you chose violence…. 1 1 spots_reddit • 2y ago

So you chose violence…. 1 u/northrupthebandgeek avatar northrupthebandgeek • 2y ago

kill -SEGV 1 1 1 u/northrupthebandgeek avatar northrupthebandgeek • 2y ago

kill -SEGV 1 1 u/Real-Image-3769 avatar Real-Image-3769 • 6mo ago

If you have Samsung press volume down and power off/on longer than 10 secs 1