Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Looking for system debugging tools | Date | Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:56:08 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Using Redhat 6.0 and the 2.2.5-22 kernel, I have a situation > where an IBM Netfinity system hangs a few minutes after > booting. However, it does not experience this hang when
People have reported numerous problems with the PCI bios on the netfinity, where if PCI bios is used a while later the box crashes. However the RH kernel is built to try and do direct PCI in favour of PCI bios32 calls.
> Is there a way to force a system dump or stack trace of the > Linux OS at the time of the hang?
You probably want to get hold of the ikd patch and/or the remote gdb stubs for Linux 2.2.x (on ftp.gcom.com) - that lets you use one Linux box to gdb another and do source level debug/stepping etc
Alan
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