Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751071AbVK3Fwh (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:52:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751073AbVK3Fwh (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:52:37 -0500 Received: from hulk.hostingexpert.com ([69.57.134.39]:60230 "EHLO hulk.hostingexpert.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751069AbVK3Fwg (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:52:36 -0500 Message-ID: <438D3E5C.6020900@m1k.net> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:53:32 -0500 From: Michael Krufky User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Shoemaker CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc3 References: <438C0124.3030700@m1k.net> <438C80DD.7050809@m1k.net> <20051129172534.GA4514@pe.Belkin> In-Reply-To: <20051129172534.GA4514@pe.Belkin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - hulk.hostingexpert.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - m1k.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1987 Lines: 48 Chris Shoemaker wrote: >On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:38:48AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >>On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Michael Krufky wrote: >> >> >>>In other words, the OOPS is the last thing to show on the screen in text mode, >>>before the console switches into X, using debian sarge's default bootup >>>process. >>> >>> >>Ok. Whatever it is, I'm happy it is doing that, since it caused us to see >>the oops quickly. None of _my_ boxes do that, obviously (and I tested on >>x86, x86-64 and ppc64 exactly to get reasonable coverage of what different >>architectures might do - but none of the boxes are debian-based). >> >>>I have no idea why gdb is running.... hmm... Anyhow, I'm away from that >>>machine right now, and it is powered off, so I can't look directly at the >>>startup scripts right now. Would you like me to send more info later on when >>>I get home? If so, what would you like to see? >>> >>> >>It's not important, I was just curious about what strange things people >>have in their bootup scripts. If you can just grep through the rc.d files >>to see what uses gdb, I'd just like to know... >> >> >I doubt gdb is in rc.d scripts. My wild uninformed guess would be >that some process (maybe xinit?) hit a SEGV and had its own signal >handler installed that tried to call gdb and attach to the crashing >process. I could imagine something like that being useful for >generating nice userspace stack traces to send to the developers. I >think I've seen something similar in some builds. > I think Chris is right. There is no gdb in the scripts at all. It makes sense for these debug capabilities to be present in Debian Sarge/Testing. Nothing in my scripts look out-of-the-ordinary. -Mike - 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/