Linux kernel oops

An oops may precede a kernel panic, but it may also allow continued operation with compromised reliability.

When the kernel detects a problem, it kills any offending processes and prints an oops message, which Linux kernel engineers can use in debugging the condition that created the oops and fixing the underlying programming error.

After a system has experienced an oops, some internal resources may no longer be operational.

Thus, even if the system appears to work correctly, undesirable side effects may have resulted from the active task being killed.

Some logger configurations may affect the ability to collect oops messages.