A panic may occur as a result of a hardware failure or a software bug in the operating system. In many cases, the operating system is capable of continued operation after an error has occurred. However, the system is in an unstable state and rather than risking security breaches and data corruption, the operating system stops to prevent further damage and facilitate diagnosis of the error.

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Interview Question for Technical Support Engineer at Red Hat:

If you faced kernel panic what shoud you do to explain what happened?

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