Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Locking Up | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:27:25 +1000 |
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:46:14 -0600 (MDT), Travis Shirk <travis@pobox.com> wrote: >Ever since I upgraded to the 2.4.x (currently running 2.4.8) >kernels, my machine has been locking up every other day >or so. Does anyone have any hints/tips for figuring out >what is going on.
Kernel Debugger + serial console. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ix86/. man Documentation/kdb.mm. Documentation/serial-console.txt.
Make sure that you enable the NMI watchdog, boot 2.4.x kernels with "nmi_watchdog=1". Unless the problem is a total hardware lockup, nmi will trip after 5 seconds and drop into kdb.
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