Re: Bug#736130: linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 crashes during shutdown of PowerPC G5 Mac. But PowerPC g4 Mac (23-bit) works OK.
On Jan 19, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
OK. That's worth a try then.
>
>> 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>.
I'll read up and see if I can make it work for this case.
>
>> 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.
Thanks! for helping any way you can…
> Ben.
Rick
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.
Words to live by!
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