What does it mean by "Followup: MachineOwner"?

Question

The following message is copied from WinDBG's output window:

Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

BugCheck 24, {1904fb, 8f9ec9f8, 8f9ec5d0, 87c4fccc}

Probably caused by : Ntfs.sys ( Ntfs!NtfsCommonRead+6f4 )

Followup: MachineOwner

Please note the last line: "Followup: MachineOwner"

What does it mean?

Answer 1

The Followup output is the attempt by the !analyze command to triage the exception to identify who owns the fault, sometimes it could be a driver, hardware, application etc..

There is a default entry in the triage.ini file that !analyze (and also !owner command) uses when it cannot find a match:

default=MachineOwner

This file is located in a folder called triage on my machine it is in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Debuggers\x64\triage

It is something you can ignore in your case, there is more information about how the analysis works and how to edit the triage.ini file for your specific use case.