Linux troubleshooting · Challenge 02
Follow the evidence.
Follow the evidence.
Find the root cause.
A production Linux server restarted after an unexpected crash. Investigate the previous boot, identify the failure chain, and submit a defensible root-cause analysis.
INC-0816 · prod-web-01 · unexpected restart
4objectives
15minute target
100points
Incident session setup
Linux Server Crash RCA
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Incident response assessment
Linux Server Crash Root-Cause Analysis
TIME00:00
SCORE0/100
RCW Linux Incident Response Environment
Investigate the previous boot. Enter help for available commands.
Root cause confirmed
Excellent investigation, Learner!
You followed the previous-boot evidence and identified the failure chain: a memory leak in rcw-backup.service exhausted RAM, triggered the OOM path, and caused a kernel panic followed by an automatic reboot.
Final score
100/ 100
PERFECT SCORE
Root cause correctly identified
- Objectives
- 4 / 4
- Completion time
- 00:00
- Commands entered
- 4
Your achievement
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