Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753433AbXI3U63 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:58:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752170AbXI3U6W (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:58:22 -0400 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:55010 "EHLO embla.aitel.hist.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751898AbXI3U6V (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:58:21 -0400 Message-ID: <47000DC4.4040403@aitel.hist.no> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:57:40 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22 References: <46F8273B.8030904@aitel.hist.no> <1190669351.4035.254.camel@chaos> <46FE5C98.1030507@aitel.hist.no> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1318 Lines: 38 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: > >> Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> >>>> I have gone back to 2.6.22rc4, which seems to work. >>>> >>>> This is a single opteron, although on a dual-slot board. >>>> >>>> >>> Can you switch to serial console, so we can get some information out of >>> that box? Sysrq-B is working, so we can get info from other sysrq >>> functions as well. >>> >>> >> I didn't need the serial - it crashes during console work too. >> I think a "make clean" was in progress at the time. There must be work going >> on in order to crash. >> >> This time 2.6.22rc4 died on me with a general protection fault >> >> I got two reports, the first one scrolled partially off screen but >> the whole trace was there: >> > > That's why I asked for a serial console. That way we can get all the > information from the reports including the register dumps ... > Sure. But I can't get a cable right now. Was the registers necessary in this case? Often, the trace turns out to be enough. Helge Hafting - 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/