Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261857AbVEWIcG (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 04:32:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261870AbVEWIcG (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 04:32:06 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:29570 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261857AbVEWIbz (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 04:31:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:00:24 +0530 From: Maneesh Soni To: Phil Oester Cc: Herbert Xu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc4 random oopses Message-ID: <20050523083024.GB3611@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: maneesh@in.ibm.com References: <20050519153324.GA17914@linuxace.com> <20050521145711.GA28132@linuxace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050521145711.GA28132@linuxace.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1382 Lines: 41 On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 03:02:08PM +0000, Phil Oester wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:18:15PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > How long can your machine stay up under 2.6.11/2.6.12-rc4? Is 2.6.10 > > still stable if rebuild it? > > Machine stays up 'forever' on 2.6.10, dies within ~4 hours on 2.6.11+. > Yes, I have rebuilt 2.6.10 with some backported patches, and it still > works fine. > > > If 2.6.10 is still proving to be stable, then please do a bisection > > search on the releases between 2.6.10/2.6.11. That may be the only > > way we can track this problem down. > > Unfortunately the box is the firewall for my employer's west coast office > so I can only get away with one unexplained natural phenomenon per > day. May take awhile... > > Phil Hello, Is it possilbe to try recreating the problems with 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 with kdump enabled? Please refer Documentation/kdump.txt in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 kernel sources. I think kernel crash dump could provide here more info. Thanks Maneesh -- Maneesh Soni Linux Technology Center, IBM India Software Labs, Bangalore, India email: maneesh@in.ibm.com Phone: 91-80-25044990 - 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/