Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265438AbUAWJoI (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2004 04:44:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266557AbUAWJoH (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2004 04:44:07 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:14565 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265438AbUAWJoE (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2004 04:44:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:44:53 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: David Woodhouse Cc: glennpj@charter.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 oops with X Message-Id: <20040123014453.775a0ba7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1074850572.23073.83.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> References: <20040123061927.GA7025@gforce.johnson.home> <20040122231814.149c8e8d.akpm@osdl.org> <1074848612.23073.81.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> <20040123011158.665ad574.akpm@osdl.org> <1074850572.23073.83.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 876 Lines: 21 David Woodhouse wrote: > > 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? I can't make it happen any more! I suspect Heisenberg would get in the way anyway. - 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/