Re: OOPS FAQ (was: OOPS (may be an attack))

Mark Montague (monty@gg.caltech.edu)
26 Mar 1999 02:14:38 -0800


Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu> writes:

> On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Catalin BOIE wrote:
>
> > I didn't. This is all I see in that moment. You don't think this is
> > possible?!
>
> Find the place in the kernel that logs only a stack trace, then we'll talk
> some more about it.
>
> Your report lacks current program counter, stack values, register values,
> reason for the crash, etc. So yes it's worth precisely zilch.

I don't know if this is the same thing I saw in the 2.2.2pre2, but I
got a couple of weird OOPSen which had corrupted, partial OOPS reports
in the syslog. My OOPS problem seems to have gone away in 2.2.{2,3},
but there may be some conditions under which only part of the oops is
logged... in my case, I got a bunch of NULLs followed by the bottom
half of an OOPS in syslog. For reference, this was debian 2.1 as of
mid-Feb...

So un-harsh a bit-- maybe there is only half an OOPS. Catalin?

For reference, look for this message:

Subject: 2.2.2-pre2 lockups and partial(?) OOPS(?)
From: Mark Montague <monty@gg.caltech.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 1999 22:55:29 -0800

in the archives, if anyone wants to see my half-oops. It's in
kernel.9902.2 on the indiana list archive.

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