Re: How to go about debuging a system lockup?

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Fri Nov 17 2006 - 18:10:51 EST


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> OK, I have now tried connecting with firescope to just follow the dmesg
> buffer across firewire. Works great, until the system hangs, then
> firescope reports that it couldn't perform the read. I wonder what part
> of the system has to lock up for the firewire card to no longer be able
> to read memory on the system.

I suppose the PCI bus is no longer accessible to the chip.
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