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.

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)