Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:57:01 +0100 | | From | Peter Wächtler <> | | Subject | Re: Panic output |
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simon@baydel.com schrieb: > > During writing a driver for a PCI board I experienced the hardware > hanging and I had to press the big red button. The hang was traced > using a PCI analyzer and I found that the driver, loaded as a > module, was taking a route which called panic. I changed > /proc/sys/kernel/panic to a non zero value and the machine started > to reboot on PCI hang. My problem is I never see any output on the > screen or in /var/log/messages. All the stuff I have looked at in > /usr/src/linux/Documentation suggests the messages should be > here. I am running a 2.4.0 kernel with a SuSE 7.1 installation. At > the hang time the system is running kde 2 and in a command > winow I have a tail -f /var/log/messages running. The first change I > see is the PC bios startup. >
First: try to start your driver from the console. There you should see the panic message.
Then look at Documentation/serial-console.txt and hook up a serial console to your box - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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