You have a serious engineering problem if you're not able to find the source of a crash after years.

brokencode 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If it’s rare and the impact is low, then it’s not getting prioritized. It doesn’t matter how much time passes if you decide not to spend time investigating.

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enraged_camel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You are either seriously naive, or have never worked on any large and complex legacy codebase.

	▲	DaiPlusPlus 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’ve been living in a bubble with my .NET day-job, where debugging/tracing/postmortems are a breeze. Compare with, say, a CORBA or DCOM system, deployed to prod with uber-optimized binaries without any debugging-symbols. So it’s not that I haven’t worked on large-scale, complex legacy systems - but that I haven’t worked on any large-scale, complex legacy systems written in languages bereft of runtime reflection and verbose error reporting. ————— It’s also possible that the bug was never found because its impact was so minimal: e.g. 1 crash per year, each causing 3 minutes’ downtime in a noncritical system: that’s something that will never get investigated fully.