Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:15:41 +0100 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: Reproducable oops in 2.2.17 and 2.2.18pre21 |
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:49:38 Rasmus Andersen wrote: > Hi. > > I get an oops reproducably with 2.2.17 and 2.2.18pre21 on a stock RH 6.2 > system. I cannot trigger it with the RH supplied kernel (2.2.14-5.0). > I also got it with 2.2.17pre10 which prompted me to upgrade the kernel. > I initially suspected bad RAM but have exchanged the RAM with memtest86'ed > RAM for no improvement. > > What I do: I try to back the system up with tar zcvf /var/backup.tar.gz > -X exclude /lib /sbin /var /bin /etc /boot /home /root /usr > (the exclude file contains the path of the file itself, i.e., > /var/ backup.tar.gz). >
Exclude /dev and /proc also, /lost+found if you have it, and /mnt if you only want that drive. Perhaps things like /proc/kcore make trouble...
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