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This is the most common form of an operating system failure in Unix-like systems.</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Computing" title="Computing">computing</a>, a <b>crash</b>, or <b>system crash</b>, occurs when a computer program such as a <a href="/wiki/Software_application" class="mw-redirect" title="Software application">software application</a> or an <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating system</a> stops functioning properly and <a href="/wiki/Exit_(system_call)" title="Exit (system call)">exits</a>. On some operating systems or individual applications, a <a href="/wiki/Crash_reporter" title="Crash reporter">crash reporting service</a> will report the crash and any details relating to it (or give the user the option to do so), usually to the <a href="/wiki/Developer_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Developer (software)">developer(s)</a> of the application. If the program is a critical part of the operating system, the entire system may crash or hang, often resulting in a <a href="/wiki/Kernel_panic" title="Kernel panic">kernel panic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Fatal_system_error" title="Fatal system error">fatal system error</a>. </p><p>Most crashes are the result of a <a href="/wiki/Software_bug" title="Software bug">software bug</a>. Typical causes include accessing invalid memory addresses,<sup id="cite_ref-invaddr_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-invaddr-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> incorrect address values in the <a href="/wiki/Program_counter" title="Program counter">program counter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buffer_overflow" title="Buffer overflow">buffer overflow</a>, overwriting a portion of the affected program code due to an earlier bug, executing invalid <a href="/wiki/Machine_instructions" class="mw-redirect" title="Machine instructions">machine instructions</a> (an <a href="/wiki/Illegal_opcode" title="Illegal opcode">illegal</a> or <a href="/wiki/Protection_ring#Supervisor_mode" title="Protection ring">unauthorized</a> opcode), or triggering an unhandled <a href="/wiki/Exception_handling" title="Exception handling">exception</a>. The original software bug that started this chain of events is typically considered to be the cause of the crash, which is discovered through the process of <a href="/wiki/Debugging" title="Debugging">debugging</a>. The original bug can be far removed from the <a href="/wiki/Source_code" title="Source code">code</a> that actually triggered the crash. </p><p>In early personal computers, attempting to write data to hardware addresses outside the system's main memory could cause hardware damage. Some crashes are <a href="/wiki/Exploit_(computer_security)" title="Exploit (computer security)">exploitable</a> and let a malicious program or <a href="/wiki/Hacker" title="Hacker">hacker</a> execute <a href="/wiki/Arbitrary_code_execution" title="Arbitrary code execution">arbitrary code</a>, allowing the replication of <a href="/wiki/Computer_virus" title="Computer virus">viruses</a> or the acquisition of data which would normally be inaccessible. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Application_crashes">Application crashes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crash_(computing)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Application crashes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Computer_crash_airport.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Computer_crash_airport.jpg/220px-Computer_crash_airport.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Computer_crash_airport.jpg/330px-Computer_crash_airport.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Computer_crash_airport.jpg/440px-Computer_crash_airport.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1202" data-file-height="831" /></a><figcaption>A display at <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_Airport" title="Frankfurt Airport">Frankfurt Airport</a> running a program under <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a> that has crashed due to a <a href="/wiki/Segmentation_fault" title="Segmentation fault">memory read access violation</a></figcaption></figure> <p>An <a href="/wiki/Application_software" title="Application software">application</a> typically crashes when it performs an operation that is not allowed by the operating system. The operating system then triggers an <a href="/wiki/Exception_handling" title="Exception handling">exception</a> or <a href="/wiki/Signal_(IPC)" title="Signal (IPC)">signal</a> in the application. Unix applications traditionally responded to the signal by <a href="/wiki/Core_dump" title="Core dump">dumping core</a>. Most Windows and Unix <a href="/wiki/Graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface">GUI</a> applications respond by displaying a dialogue box (such as the one shown to the right) with the option to attach a <a href="/wiki/Debugger" title="Debugger">debugger</a> if one is installed. Some applications attempt to recover from the error and continue running instead of <a href="/wiki/Exit_(system_call)" title="Exit (system call)">exiting</a>. </p><p>An application can also contain <a href="/wiki/Code" title="Code">code</a> to crash<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after detecting a severe error. </p><p>Typical errors that result in application crashes include: </p> <ul><li>attempting to read or write memory that is not allocated for reading or writing by that application (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Segmentation_fault" title="Segmentation fault">segmentation fault</a>, x86-specific <a href="/wiki/General_protection_fault" title="General protection fault">general protection fault</a>)</li> <li>attempting to execute privileged or invalid instructions</li> <li>attempting to perform I/O operations on <a href="/wiki/Computer_hardware" title="Computer hardware">hardware</a> devices to which it does not have permission to access</li> <li>passing invalid arguments to system calls</li> <li>attempting to access other system resources to which the application does not have permission to access</li> <li>attempting to execute machine instructions with bad arguments (depending on CPU architecture): <a href="/wiki/Division_by_zero" title="Division by zero">divide by zero</a>, operations on <a href="/wiki/Denormal_number" class="mw-redirect" title="Denormal number">denormal number</a> or <a href="/wiki/NaN" title="NaN">NaN</a> (not a number) values, memory access to <a href="/wiki/Bus_error" title="Bus error">unaligned addresses</a>, etc.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crash_to_desktop">Crash to desktop</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crash_(computing)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Crash to desktop"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A "crash to desktop" is said to occur when a <a href="/wiki/Computer_program" title="Computer program">program</a> (commonly a <a href="/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">video game</a>) unexpectedly quits, abruptly taking the user back to the <a href="/wiki/Desktop_metaphor" title="Desktop metaphor">desktop</a>. Usually, the term is applied only to crashes where no error is displayed, hence all the user sees as a result of the crash is the desktop. Many times there is no apparent action that causes a crash to desktop. During normal function, the program may <a href="/wiki/Hang_(computing)" title="Hang (computing)">freeze</a> for a shorter period of time, and then close by itself. Also during normal function, the program may become a <a href="/wiki/Black_Screen_of_Death" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Screen of Death">black screen</a> and repeatedly play the last few seconds of <a href="/wiki/Sound" title="Sound">sound</a> (depending on the size of the audio <a href="/wiki/Data_buffer" title="Data buffer">buffer</a>) that was being played before it crashes to desktop. Other times it may appear to be <a href="/wiki/Event-driven_programming" title="Event-driven programming">triggered</a> by a certain action, such as loading an area. </p><p>Crash to desktop bugs are considered particularly problematic for users. Since they frequently display no error message, it can be very difficult to track down the source of the problem, especially if the times they occur and the actions taking place right before the crash do not appear to have any pattern or common ground. One way to track down the source of the problem for games is to run them in windowed-mode. <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista" title="Windows Vista">Windows Vista</a> has a feature that can help track down the cause of a CTD problem when it occurs on any program.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (December 2010)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a> included a similar feature as well.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (December 2010)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Some computer programs, such as <i><a href="/wiki/StepMania" title="StepMania">StepMania</a></i> and BBC's <i><a href="/wiki/Bamzooki" title="Bamzooki">Bamzooki</a></i>, also crash to desktop if in full-screen, but display the error in a separate window when the user has returned to the desktop. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Web_server_crashes">Web server crashes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crash_(computing)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Web server crashes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The software running the <a href="/wiki/Web_server" title="Web server">web server</a> behind a website may crash, rendering it inaccessible entirely or providing only an error message instead of normal content. </p><p>For example: if a site is using an SQL database (such as <a href="/wiki/MySQL" title="MySQL">MySQL</a>) for a script (such as <a href="/wiki/PHP" title="PHP">PHP</a>) and that SQL database server crashes, then <a href="/wiki/PHP" title="PHP">PHP</a> will display a connection error. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operating_system_crashes">Operating system crashes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crash_(computing)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Operating system crashes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Windows_XP_BSOD.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Windows_XP_BSOD.png/220px-Windows_XP_BSOD.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Windows_XP_BSOD.png/330px-Windows_XP_BSOD.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Windows_XP_BSOD.png/440px-Windows_XP_BSOD.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Screen of Death">Blue Screen of Death</a> as displayed in Windows XP, Vista, and 7</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:OS_X_Mountain_Lion_kernel_panic.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/OS_X_Mountain_Lion_kernel_panic.jpg/220px-OS_X_Mountain_Lion_kernel_panic.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/OS_X_Mountain_Lion_kernel_panic.jpg/330px-OS_X_Mountain_Lion_kernel_panic.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/OS_X_Mountain_Lion_kernel_panic.jpg/440px-OS_X_Mountain_Lion_kernel_panic.jpg 2x" data-file-width="460" data-file-height="285" /></a><figcaption>A kernel panic as displayed in OS X Mountain Lion</figcaption></figure> <p>An operating system crash commonly occurs when a <a href="/wiki/Exception_handling#Exception_handling_in_hardware" title="Exception handling">hardware exception</a> occurs that cannot be <a href="/wiki/Exception_handling" title="Exception handling">handled</a>. Operating system crashes can also occur when internal <a href="/wiki/Sanity_check" title="Sanity check">sanity-checking</a> logic within the operating system detects that the operating system has lost its internal self-consistency. </p><p>Modern multi-tasking operating systems, such as <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, and <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>, usually remain unharmed when an application program crashes. </p><p>Some operating systems, e.g., <a href="/wiki/Z/OS" title="Z/OS">z/OS</a>, have facilities for <a href="/wiki/Reliability,_availability_and_serviceability" title="Reliability, availability and serviceability">Reliability, availability and serviceability</a> (RAS) and the OS can recover from the crash of a critical component, whether due to hardware failure, e.g., uncorrectable ECC error, or to software failure, e.g., a reference to an unassigned page. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abnormal_end">Abnormal end</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crash_(computing)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Abnormal end"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An Abnormal end or ABEND is an abnormal termination of <a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">software</a>, or a program crash. Errors or crashes on the <a href="/wiki/Novell" title="Novell">Novell</a> NetWare network operating system are usually called ABENDs. Communities of <a href="/wiki/NetWare" title="NetWare">NetWare</a> administrators sprung up around the Internet, such as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050324091448/http://www.abend.org/">abend.org</a>. </p><p>This usage derives from the <i>ABEND</i> macro on IBM <a href="/wiki/OS/360" class="mw-redirect" title="OS/360">OS/360</a>, ..., <a href="/wiki/Z/OS" title="Z/OS">z/OS</a> operating systems. Usually capitalized, but may appear as "abend". Some common ABEND codes are System ABEND 0C7 (data exception) and System ABEND 0CB (<a href="/wiki/Division_by_zero" title="Division by zero">division by zero</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ABENDlist_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABENDlist-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abends can be "soft" (allowing automatic recovery) or "hard" (terminating the activity).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term is jocularly claimed to be derived from the German word "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Abend#English" class="extiw" title="wikt:Abend">Abend</a>" meaning "evening".<sup id="cite_ref-dictionary_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dictionary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Security_and_privacy_implications_of_crashes">Security and privacy implications of crashes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crash_(computing)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Security and privacy implications of crashes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Depending on the application, the crash may contain the user's sensitive and <a href="/wiki/Information_privacy" title="Information privacy">private information</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moreover, many software bugs which cause crashes are also <a href="/wiki/Exploit_(computer_security)" title="Exploit (computer security)">exploitable</a> for <a href="/wiki/Arbitrary_code_execution" title="Arbitrary code execution">arbitrary code execution</a> and other types of <a href="/wiki/Privilege_escalation" title="Privilege escalation">privilege escalation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, a <a href="/wiki/Stack_buffer_overflow" title="Stack buffer overflow">stack buffer overflow</a> can overwrite the return address of a subroutine with an invalid value, which will cause, e.g., a <a href="/wiki/Segmentation_fault" title="Segmentation fault">segmentation fault</a>, when the subroutine returns. However, if an exploit overwrites the return address with a valid value, the code in that address will be executed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Crash_reproduction">Crash reproduction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crash_(computing)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Crash reproduction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When crashes are collected in the field using a <a href="/wiki/Crash_reporter" title="Crash reporter">crash reporter</a>, the next step for developers is to be able to reproduce them locally. For this, several techniques exist: STAR uses symbolic execution,<sup id="cite_ref-ChenKim2015_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ChenKim2015-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> EvoCrash performs evolutionary search.<sup id="cite_ref-SoltaniPanichella2017_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoltaniPanichella2017-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crash_(computing)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Screen of Death">Blue Screen of Death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copy_protection" title="Copy protection">Copy protection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crash-only_software" title="Crash-only software">Crash-only software</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Data_loss" title="Data loss">Data loss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guru_Meditation" title="Guru Meditation">Guru Meditation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memory_corruption" title="Memory corruption">Memory corruption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memory_protection" title="Memory protection">Memory protection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Page_fault" title="Page fault">Page fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reboot" title="Reboot">Reboot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safe_mode" title="Safe mode">Safe mode</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Segmentation_Fault" class="mw-redirect" title="Segmentation Fault">Segmentation Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Storage_violation" title="Storage violation">Storage violation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SIGILL" class="mw-redirect" title="SIGILL">SIGILL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SIGSEGV" class="mw-redirect" title="SIGSEGV">SIGSEGV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SystemRescueCD" class="mw-redirect" title="SystemRescueCD">SystemRescueCD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Undefined_behavior" title="Undefined behavior">Undefined behavior</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crash_(computing)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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number</a></li> <li>Address not on correct boundary (alignment error)</li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In <a href="/wiki/OS/360_and_successors" title="OS/360 and successors">OS/360 and successors</a> the application normally uses an <a href="/wiki/ABEND" class="mw-redirect" title="ABEND">ABEND</a> macro with a user completion code.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crash_(computing)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span 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