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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.15-rc3
    Chris Shoemaker wrote:

    >On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:38:48AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >
    >
    >>On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Michael Krufky wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>In other words, the OOPS is the last thing to show on the screen in text mode,
    >>>before the console switches into X, using debian sarge's default bootup
    >>>process.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>Ok. Whatever it is, I'm happy it is doing that, since it caused us to see
    >>the oops quickly. None of _my_ boxes do that, obviously (and I tested on
    >>x86, x86-64 and ppc64 exactly to get reasonable coverage of what different
    >>architectures might do - but none of the boxes are debian-based).
    >>
    >>>I have no idea why gdb is running.... hmm... Anyhow, I'm away from that
    >>>machine right now, and it is powered off, so I can't look directly at the
    >>>startup scripts right now. Would you like me to send more info later on when
    >>>I get home? If so, what would you like to see?
    >>>
    >>>
    >>It's not important, I was just curious about what strange things people
    >>have in their bootup scripts. If you can just grep through the rc.d files
    >>to see what uses gdb, I'd just like to know...
    >>
    >>
    >I doubt gdb is in rc.d scripts. My wild uninformed guess would be
    >that some process (maybe xinit?) hit a SEGV and had its own signal
    >handler installed that tried to call gdb and attach to the crashing
    >process. I could imagine something like that being useful for
    >generating nice userspace stack traces to send to the developers. I
    >think I've seen something similar in some builds.
    >
    I think Chris is right. There is no gdb in the scripts at all. It
    makes sense for these debug capabilities to be present in Debian
    Sarge/Testing.

    Nothing in my scripts look out-of-the-ordinary.

    -Mike
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