From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263595AbTLEKem (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 05:34:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263653AbTLEKem (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 05:34:42 -0500 Received: from ferreol-1-82-66-171-16.fbx.proxad.net ([82.66.171.16]:6916 "EHLO diablo.hd.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263595AbTLEKek (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 05:34:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD05F3A.2000703@free.fr> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:34:34 +0100 From: Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031105 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Duncan Sands CC: "Randy.Dunlap" , mfedyk@matchmail.com, zwane@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OOPS, usbcore, releaseintf] 2.6.0-test10-mm1 References: <3FC4E8C8.4070902@free.fr> <200312050838.58349.baldrick@free.fr> <3FD059BD.1090704@free.fr> <200312051118.37232.baldrick@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <200312051118.37232.baldrick@free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Duncan Sands wrote: >>>That explains why this relatively harmless Oops was >>>freezing Vince's box. I guess he should turn it off. >> >>Well, I don't find this oops harmless at all : my box is usually >>freezing while in a huge number of other oopses that directly follow this one, >>and then nothing makes it into the logs. I had to set this sysctl once >>in order to get the first oops, but that's not related to the other >>freeze... > > > What is the second Oops? No idea... without the sysctl, the screen keeps scrolling printing new oopes (49 of them in my last attempt), in which case nothing about it ever reaches the disk log (and it looks like the kernel buffer is too short when using kmsgdump). Could it be possible to have something like: echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops ...and have the system panic at the 2nd oops ?