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This happens to me, but only when I’m connected to my LG ultra fine. I can’t reliably reproduce it. Can you elaborate on how you did it?


I reproduced it by eliminating aspects of the scenario and combing through logs. For example, for a long time I only knew it was happening sometime after the laptop went to sleep, but that's all. After paying attention to my patterns, I isolated out the case where the laptop would sleep only for a few minutes on or off power. Then I did the same thing but either pulled the power cable or plugged it in after it went to sleep. Then I tried variants of those after letting it sleep for a long time. Nothing was reproducible for a very long time until I noticed that the specific case of first using it till the battery was dead, then letting it sit for a while, then plugging it in and then opening the lid caused the kernel panic. It persisted through two screen replacements and one motherboard replacement if memory serves. Not totally sure how that happened, but it could have been a faulty SSD or something.

It was extremely satisfying to finally isolate it to 100% reproducibility. Peak of my career right there.




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