Guru Meditation

Guru Meditation started as an error notice displayed by the Amiga computer when it crashes. It is now also used by Varnish,[1] a software component used by many content-heavy websites. This has led to many internet users seeing a "Guru Meditation" message (or the variant "Guru Mediation")[2] when these websites suffer crashes or other issues. It is analogous to the "Blue Screen of Death" in Microsoft Windows operating systems, or a kernel panic in Unix.

It has also been used as a message for unrecoverable errors in software packages such as VirtualBox[3] and other operating systems (see Legacy section below).

  1. ^ "Varnish Troubleshooting: Varnish gives me Guru meditation". Retrieved 2011-12-18.
  2. ^ "Glossary of Terms: Guru mediation". Fastly Developer Hub. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  3. ^ "What is guru meditation? (VirtualBox forum)". Retrieved 2012-11-11.

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