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Bug#704767: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kernel crashes when task block for more than 120 seconds



On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 21:24 -0400, Olivier Diotte wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
[...]
> > The thing is, the kernel doesn't write to kern.log; the syslog daemon
> > does.  If you get a soft-lockup message in kern.log then it proves
> > the system was still somewhat responsive.
> >
> Hum, I tried to correlate the lockup with the logs, but maybe this
> thing gets written before or even is unrelated to the lockup.

Perhaps you can use netconsole or serial console to capture any further
log messages after the soft-lockup warning?

> There also seems be a few issues with the WiFi USB dongle as can be
> seen in the kernel log output from my bug report, but I remember
> seeing something that looked like crashes also. I will look into this
> monday when I have access to the machine.
> 
> > Please send the contents of /proc/meminfo.
> >
> Yes, I suppose a filled memory could be related. I will try to get the
> contents of this file, but I am not sure if that will be possible if
> the system is locked up (magic keys don't seem to work either, though
> I will confirm that monday).
[...]

Actually I wanted to know what it looks like before you start the
Doxygen run.

Ben.

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