Re: kernel panics - sometimes
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:55:22PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > 1) Upgrade from hamm to potato (you might need to go to slink first). The
> > bug fixes along are worth it.
>
> Could I use apt to do this? Is there somewhere a howto for doing this?
>
> > 2) Use a newer kernel. 2.2.9 is about 6 months old by now. There have
> > been quite a few bugs fixed since then. If you get these crashes with
> > the latest in the 2.2 line (2.2.14 at this writing) then you need to
> > report it as a bug.
>
> I tried to compile 2.2.14 but it failed with many error messages in
> console.c.
What are the errors?
> Isn't it possible to run hamm with newer kernels.
It should be. Sometimes you need to upgrade various user-level programs
though.
> Last time I read on this list Debian is kernel independent (someone
> asked why his potato uses a 2.0.39 kernel).
>
> > These reports also need to carry more information. All you have are the
> > instructions that caused the fault - they don't mean anything unless it's
> > known how the kernel got to where it crashed.
>
> Yes, but before these last messages the screen was filled with addresses
> (all the same, not register addresses). And I couldn't find any hint in
> the log files (except the ^@ characters in syslog).
>
> Are there maybe any useful tools to watch the system more closely in order
> to have more information after a crash?
>
> --Werner
>
>
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"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
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