Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 oops with X
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: glennpj@charter.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 01:11 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > This is what GDB watchpoints were invented for, surely? 
> 
> I suppose that might help.  But for me the bug triggered towards the end of
> initscripts (it moves around) after we've been through that code path a
> zillion times.  It probably needs to be solved by inspection.  If one can
> get it to happen reliably.

Can't you script it just to automatically show a backtrace and continue,
then peruse the logs later?

-- 
dwmw2


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