Debugging stories are fun! This is a collection of links to various debugging stories.

Atop segfaults

Bug that hides from breakpoints

Crash Bandicoot Memory Card Corruption

Custom Rust OS crashes

Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain

Digital divider with wrong output

FIRST robotics dashboard segfaults due to finalizer

Grep segfauts

GWT test passes during normal runs but fails during coverage runs

JVM has 6-7 second GC pauses

Matrix transformation is 10x faster in a test harness than in the game

MS Money crashes. Includes reverse engineered binary patch fix!

Network link instability due to DB caching policies

Python hashes files differently on different days

Signal fails only when returning from page fault handler

Signal handling on 286 emulator for Xenix

OS crashes on boot if machine was used recently

The case of the 500-mile email

Tracking down tmux/vim strangeness

Veeerrry Slow Logons

Windows crash dump of nonsensical instruction

Contributors

• Dan Luu
• Jyrki Vesterinen
• Howard Mao
• Matteo Castellini
• Nathan Isom

TODOs:

Improve formatting.

Write up some interesting bugs: 40 hour hang, hardware bug caused by copying behavior of Intel engineering sample found on ebay, etc.