Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:06:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:06:04 -0500 Received: from pneumatic-tube.sgi.com ([204.94.214.22]:32895 "EHLO pneumatic-tube.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:05:54 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 From: Keith Owens To: Steven Walter cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange lockups on 2.4.2 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:16:27 CST." <20010326231627.A468@hapablap.dyn.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:05:05 +1000 Message-ID: <5683.985680305@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:16:27 -0600, Steven Walter wrote: >This has happened twice, now, though I don't believe its completely >reproduceable. What happens is an Oops, which drops me into kdb. I've >been in X both times, however, which makes kdb rather useless. Documentation/serial-console.txt >The thing I find most interesting about this is that only 4 lines of the >oops gets into the log. 4 lines, both times. This time, those lines >were: > > printing eip: >c0112e1f >Oops: 0002 >CPU: 0 That is a symptom of a broken klogd. Always run klogd with the -x switch. If that does not work, take a look at ftp://ftp..kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/v2.4/patch-sysklogd-1-3-31-ksymoops-1.gz One day the sysklogd maintainers might just fix this bug, that bug fix is almost 2 years old. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/