Re: kernel oops

Michael Gilbert (mgilbert@oit.umass.edu)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:20:07 -0500 (EST)


>> quotas enabled, after the systems runs for some time repquota -a seg
>> faults with a kernel oops, sync does too, quotaoff -a, quotaon -a fixes
>> that for a short period of time.

>Read linux/Documentation/oop-stracing.txt. Without a symbolic dump of
>your call trace, the oops is useless: we can't tell where in the kernel
>it came from. You just need to make sure you preserve the System.map
>which was built with the kernel, and look at the
>linux/scripts/ksymoops.cc program which can interpret the call trace for
>you.

What if the oops occurs early on during boot, i.e. at the onset of init?

MICHAEL Wm. GILBERT mgilbert@oit.umass.edu
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