Re: wq bug, forcing oops.

From: Mike Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 08:47:52 EST


On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Q wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 06:52:49AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Q wrote:
> >
> > > When I stopped a program, my screen got filled with:
> > > wq bug, forcing oops.
> >
> > If the EIP: XXXX:[<address>] bit stays on screen long enough, write
> > down the address and look up the next lower address in your System.map.
>
> No it didn't, it just scrolled those of my screen before I can see it.
> Looks like he was in some loop trying to force an oops or something, or
> had it 100 times a second?
>
> > > After a few second, it rebooted. I can't find anything in the logs.
> >
> > Make sure that you aren't using 'panic=n(secs)' on the command line.
>
> I'm not. Normally it does not reboot after an Oops.

If you have another machine there, you can set up a serial console
(Documentation/serial-console.txt), or if not but you do have a line
printer, enable lp-console and boot with console=lp console=tty.

        -Mike

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