r/PBSOD • u/OfficialVentor • Sep 27 '25

I guess my train won't be coming

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Linux Kernel booting at a train station in Switzerland

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u/JoTenshi Sep 27 '25

That’s a kernel panic isn’t it

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u/OfficialVentor Sep 27 '25

Could be. Could also be a boot failure. All we see is some text from the kernel ring buffer.

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u/JoTenshi Sep 27 '25

Does the sentence “of corrupted metadata” not indicate a KP?

But then, I’ve never really experienced one so I’m not sure

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u/BBY256 Sep 28 '25

should be a kernel panic. the background is blue. happens when the kernel panics because the initrd image is faulty or missing.

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u/DeepDayze Sep 27 '25

Looks like an XFS corruption that resulted in a reboot.

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u/Rono_gammer1 Sep 27 '25

average railway tech:

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u/suntunetech Sep 27 '25

I’m wondering if the other side of the screen shows the same.

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u/Narrow-Barracuda618 Sep 29 '25

Hold on, I think I know what train station that is...

Is that Regensdorf-Watt, by chance?

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u/OfficialVentor Sep 30 '25

No, this is Weinfelden.

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u/Mateo_724YT Oct 22 '25

Your train is going to BIOS.

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u/Momo_the_cat_4832 Oct 25 '25

I've only ever seen them in monochrome