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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 19:02:52 +0530
From: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
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To: sathish jayapalan <sathish_jayapalan@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: How to crash a system and take a dump?
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With LKCD, you can also trigger a dump via the Alt+Sysrq+c key. 
If you run into problems when trying to use this, then you might need
some of the fixes that we've checked into the lkcd cvs tree.

Regards
Suparna
IBM Linux Technology Center

sathish jayapalan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have a doubt. I know that linux kernel doesn't crash
> so easily. Is there any way to panic the system? Can I
> go to the source area and insert/modify a variable in
> kernel code so that the kernel references a null
> pointer and crashes while running the kernel compiled
> with this variable. My aim is to learn crash dump
> analysis with 'Lcrash tool". Please help me out with
> this.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> sathish
> 
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