Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269342AbUI3Qrx (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:47:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269345AbUI3Qrx (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:47:53 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:59654 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269342AbUI3Qru (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:47:50 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:49:01 -0400 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: References: <20040928103324.GA21050@elte.hu><20040928103324.GA21050@elte.hu> <200409280701.06932.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1096562415 5866 192.168.12.100 (30 Sep 2004 16:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200409280701.06932.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2052 Lines: 47 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 September 2004 06:33, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >>* Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>>>what i use is serial logging to another machine. A digital camera >>>>is fine too, if the problem area is still visible on the screen. >>>>(Netconsole is useful too for other type of hangs but it's not >>>>active at such an early stage yet.) >>>> >>>>Ingo >>> >>>Unforch, I don't have a spare seriel port Ingo. One is running my >>>x10 >> >>fortunately with the patch applied your box works now (so does mine) >>so the bug appears to be fixed. > > > I just built a kernel with that latest stack-fix patch in it too, but > haven't rebooted to it yet. I read that as being moderately > important in some cases although I don't think I've encountered that > particular case yet. Was this in fact a good idea for me? > > >>early-bootup debugging was never easy, and breakage there doesnt >>happen all that often. Hopefully this was the last one related to >>remove-BKL. >> >>(If such a early-bootup lockup happens in the future then you sure >>could temporarily unplug the ups serial connection and use that as >>the serial console - for the narrow and temporary purpose of >>debugging that boot-time hang.) > > > That would I assume need a null modem cable, and what do I run on the > firewall? Minicom? Or is there something better that can just grab > and log without being interactive? Its a rh7.3 box with a 2.4.18 era > kernel. I'd update that, but its not broken. :) I use Kermit, it will do about everything you could ask and gives a single interface for serial and network console connections. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/