Bug#736130: linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 crashes during shutdown of PowerPC G5 Mac. But PowerPC g4 Mac (23-bit) works OK.
One additional bit of information that may help -- Wheezey ( the 3.2 ppc64 kernel ) doesn't have this problem on this machine.
Rick
On Jan 19, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Ben, for the very quick response!
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> Does it help any that the G4 (32-bit CPU) sitting right beside it, running an identical software setup, reboots just fine?
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> Rick
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> On Jan 19, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
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>> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
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>> You forgot to include the messages logged at shutdown.
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>> Ben.
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>> --
>> Ben Hutchings
>> One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.
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