From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hdf3@comcast.net (don fisher) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:16:14 -0700 Subject: Problem with netconsole and eth0 timing In-Reply-To: <117350.1538031686@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <0f831765-c3f1-17e9-b029-1a7e52d8a38d@comcast.net> <103031.1537928796@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <04ea042b-8e6d-2699-2dab-986a62d4d3cb@comcast.net> <105446.1537997610@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <117350.1538031686@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: <538fdb25-28fb-60b9-9924-c985b02084d7@comcast.net> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On 9/27/18 12:01 AM, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:38:27 -0700, don fisher said: > >> Thanks. I tried building with the driver embedded in the kernel, but the >> compile failed with a halt. No crash is apparent, just a halt. It turned >> out that this was repeated until I removed the netconsole command during >> boot. System appears stable now. I will try tomorrow to embed the >> driver, then add netconsole option in the command line. > > Wait, what? The *compile* "failed with a halt"? What the heck does that mean? > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > Don't know what it means. The compile just happened to be what I was execution. The system just stopped with no output to screen, dmesg or journal. With trial an error I discovered that if I eliminated the netconsole command from the grub2 linux command line, the system appeared stable again. I put that netconsole command in /etc/default/grub, so it is sort of a pain to insert and remove it. Don