Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263760AbUAOX4R (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:56:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264264AbUAOX4R (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:56:17 -0500 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:31420 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263760AbUAOX4N (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:56:13 -0500 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <4007289A.3000005@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:56:10 +0100 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm2 References: <20040110014542.2acdb968.akpm@osdl.org> <4003F34E.5080508@gmx.de> <20040113095428.440762f7.akpm@osdl.org> <400441BD.9020609@gmx.de> <20040113111639.60b681d2.akpm@osdl.org> <4004458C.5040000@gmx.de> <20040115152306.2c56d6e3.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040115152306.2c56d6e3.rddunlap@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1242 Lines: 30 > | > When the kernel prints that `badness' message it then prints a stack > | > backtrace. That's what we want. > | > | But how to get that? When the machine locks up, I don't see anything > | written and only *sometimes* I got above message in the log -whcih I > | can only see afterwards. But there is nothing else realted to it in the > | log... > > (I didn't see any replies to this...) > > The usual answer is to use a serial console to log the kernel messages, > but not everyone has that option available to them. > > Depending on your system, you might be able to use kmsgdump to > capture the final kernel messages to a floppy disk (if you have a > "legacy" type floppy). If you are interested in trying that, > the kmsgdump patch is available at > http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/kmsgdump/ Sounds interesting. I will give it a try. But according to your other post, it seems to have problems with APIC, so just the case which seems to make problems for me... Prakash - 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/