ILJA SHEBALIN <[email protected]> wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2017
at 18:52:07 -0400 in <[email protected]>:

> It was so strange that Growl for the first time caused Kernel
> Panic. I judge this by seeing a line in the KP log which says that
> BSD process attributing to the crash is...Growl. Here's it in all
> entirety. Is it useful?

The crash report does *not* say that Growl caused the kernel panic.
The kernel panic occurred in the Nvidea graphics driver. Growl was
the process that was executing at the time of the crash. There isn't
reason to believe those two facts are related and it wasn't luck of the draw
that Growl happened to be executing while the kernel crashed.

Generally speaking, bugs in application code should be be able to
cause the kernel to panic. Of course, any such things would be a
kernel bug, and kernel bugs do indeed happen. But although all kernel
panics represent kernel bugs, not all kernel bugs are because of
userspace applications like Growl. I wouldn't put much stock in this
being Growl-related unless it happens repeatedly and fingers Growl as
the current process consistently. Even then, that is a necessary but
not sufficient condition for it to be Growl's fault.

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  John Hawkinson

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