On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 19:23 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > Thanks, Ben, for the very quick response! > > I'd love to do that. But I don't have a serial console for this > machine (no serial port -- it's a PowerMac "MacPro" G5, 64-bit CPU) > and the messages logged at crash time scroll off the screen too fast > for me to copy them down (or even photograph). > > I'll make a photograph of the last screen's worth of messages and send > that to the bug, if you think that will help. It might do. > Do you know of any way to get more information than that? I'd really > like to help get this bug fixed (I've got plans for this machine but I > can't go forward with them until I can reboot it reliably) You might also be able to use netconsole <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt>. > Does it help any that the G4 (32-bit CPU) sitting right beside it, > running an identical software setup, reboots just fine? I have no idea what the differences could be. Unfortunately there are no kernel maintainers for powerpc in Debian so all I can do is prompt for useful information and then refer you upstream. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.
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