Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:02:26 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Help! Everything is crashing! |
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 ymotiwala@hss.hns.com wrote:
> >My linux box running 2.0.33 and I always keep it updated. But still it >crashes (last was yesterday), no logs..no oops..nothing nothing and >evrything get locked, all the time same scenerio. Even can not make any >connection to my crashed m/c from other m/cs. Aplication running at the >time of last crash were xterm, vi and gcc. I am only user on the m/c and >no other accounts. Any idea ?
As I just suggested to a lot of other people is getting in troubles with 2.0.33 please try my print-eip patch at www.cs.unibo.it/~arcangel
You should find all needed instruction there (if not please point me your problems).
With that patch applyed the kernel is sure stable as 2.0.33 clean but will run a bit slowly and X won' t work ;-(...
This because the kernel will print on the screen continuously the execution trace addresses every time it start a new function directly on video ram. I just discovered an hardware problem for myself using that patch (btw the print-eip original patch and idea come form Ingo).
Basically it works since if the kernel doesn' t Oops or SysRq don' t work you just have all you need to trace the lock on the screen.
I know that running such kind of patch on a production server for a long time can be odd, but if your problems are very well reproducible please use it! I just asked a lot of people to do that and I never get one feedback ;-(((.
> >On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > >> I dont think so. I've certainly seen no supporting evidence that 2.0.33 >> boxes are crashing for those kind of reasons. >> >> > One other thing.. most of my servers are based on Redhat 3.0.3, where the >> > only upgrades that have been done were because of security bugs. Can I >> > expect upgrading to RedHat 5.0 or 4.2 to make things more stable? >> > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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