Find the fault
Type ‘f’ into the crash debugger to get the Fault
information
If the category is KERN 4 then you are in business.
KERN 4 simply says that a panic happened in a system
thread
The actual panic, such as KERN-EXEC3, is hidden
Type ‘i’ into the crash debugger to get information
about the real panic reason
Sometimes even this doesn’t work - a non-system critical
thread which crashes can cause the process to exit if it is
process critical e.g. the main thread
If another thread in the process is marked as system critical
this will take down the platform.
A fool proof method of finding the real panic is to look
at the output from the KPanic debug tracing