Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750723AbVKZTeF (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:34:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750725AbVKZTeE (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:34:04 -0500 Received: from herkules.vianova.fi ([194.100.28.129]:54426 "HELO mail.vianova.fi") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750723AbVKZTeE (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:34:04 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:33:58 +0200 From: Ville Herva To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Folkert van Heusden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: capturing oopses Message-ID: <20051126193358.GF22255@vianova.fi> Reply-To: vherva@vianova.fi References: <20051122130754.GL32512@vanheusden.com> <20051126155656.GA3988@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051126155656.GA3988@stusta.de> X-Operating-System: Linux herkules.vianova.fi 2.4.32-rc1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1440 Lines: 37 On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 04:56:56PM +0100, you [Adrian Bunk] wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:07:54PM +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > > > Hi, > > Hi Folkert, > > > My 2.6.14 system occasionally crashes; gives a kernel panic. Of course I > > would like to report it. Now the system locks up hard so I can't copy > > the stacktrace. The crash dump patches mentioned in oops-tracing.txt all > > don't work for 2.6.14 it seems. So: what should I do? Get my digicam and > > take a picture of the display? > > yes, digicams have become a common tool for reporting Oops'es. Speaking of which, does anybody know a feasible (as in "not too much harder than manually typing it in manually") way to OCR characters from vga text mode screen captures - or even digican shots? The vga text mode captures are from a remote administration interface (such as HP RILOE or vmware gsx console) so they are pixel perfect and OCR should be doable. The digican shots on the other hand... Well at least it would have hack value :). (My personal opinion is that Linus' unwillingness to include anything like kmsgdump (http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kmsgdump/) is somewhat unfortunate.) -- v -- v@iki.fi - 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/