How To Activate A Kernel Panic

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Created Jul ’16

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Hello, I want to Activate a Kernel Panic to see how my program gets effected, but I don't know how to manually activate it through Terminal. The old command I used was

sudo dtrace -w -n "BEGIN{ panic();}"

but that did not work. The error was

dtrace: could not enable tracing: Permission denied

Is there any way to activate a Kernel Panic, or did Apple remove the permission to?

Please Help.

Thank you.

Specifications:

OS X El Capitan 10.11.5

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Answer 1

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’16

System Integrity Protection is preventing DTrace from triggering the panic. I can’t think of any way to trigger a panic without disabling SIP. OTOH, given that you’re working on a victim machine anyway (at least I hope you’re not kernel panicking your development machine), disabling SIP is a reasonable option.

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Answer 2

Ayunubol OP

Feb ’25

First you need to boot into Recovery and type: csrutil disable then reboot Then you can open the terminal and write: sudo dtrace -w -n "BEGIN{ panic();}"

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