A few days ago, while I was doing an Oracle RMAN duplicate operation to set up another database on a Oracle Linux 6.10 system running on VMWare, the sytem went into a kernel panic state with the following messages: kernel:[217869.366586] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 223s! [sadc:32354] kernel:[217869.366598] NMI watchdog: BUG: … Continue reading Input/output error — Rebooting Linux remotely →