Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:39:57 +0100 (MET) | From | "Michael L. Galbraith" <> | Subject | Re: Various bugs, 2.1.66 - still there 2.1.71 |
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On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi! > > > > I still see this behaviour with kernel 2.1.71. Spontaneous reboot while > > > working in X. I was using netscape the two times it occured (once with > > > either mentioned kernel). The load was 0 and there was no logs or > > > messages. > > > > I've also seen this behaviour twice, but on a ppro 2.0.32 SMP machine and > > using netscape4 and _Accellerated X_. The box always has higher loads than > > 0, so other processes were running, but the reboot was spontaneous and > > netscape might be involved. > > I guess that spontaneous reboots are mostly caused by kernel stack > overflow. As it seems to be pretty widespread problem, it might be > nice to produce patch to detect such overflows (and panic() machine so > that messages are not lost). > > [With one version of kernel, all you had to do to reboot the machine > was to press t and <TAB> twice in bash$ prompt ;-)] > > Pavel
Hello Pavel,
This has been done a long time ago by Ingo.. this is one of the features of ktracer. I keep it current in my tree always, so if anyone is having these kind of problems and wants to try it.. holler.
-Mike
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