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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:15:41 +0100
From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Rasmus Andersen <rasmus@jaquet.dk>
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Subject: Re: Reproducable oops in 2.2.17 and 2.2.18pre21
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:49:38 Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I get an oops reproducably with 2.2.17 and 2.2.18pre21 on a stock RH 6.2
> system. I cannot trigger it with the RH supplied kernel (2.2.14-5.0).
> I also got it with 2.2.17pre10 which prompted me to upgrade the kernel.
> I initially suspected bad RAM but have exchanged the RAM with memtest86'ed
> RAM for no improvement.
> 
> What I do: I try to back the system up with tar zcvf /var/backup.tar.gz 
> -X exclude /lib /sbin /var /bin /etc /boot /home /root /usr
> (the exclude file contains the path of the file itself, i.e., 
> /var/ backup.tar.gz).
> 

Exclude /dev and /proc also, /lost+found if you have it, and /mnt if you 
only want that drive. Perhaps things like /proc/kcore make trouble...

-- 
Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta                                 #> cd /pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                     #> more beer

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