From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263760AbTLEAJo (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:09:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263765AbTLEAJo (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:09:44 -0500 Received: from modemcable067.88-70-69.mc.videotron.ca ([69.70.88.67]:52096 "EHLO montezuma.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263760AbTLEAJl (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:09:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:08:24 -0500 (EST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: "Randy.Dunlap" cc: Mike Fedyk , fuzzy77@free.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [kernel panic @ reboot] 2.6.0-test10-mm1 In-Reply-To: <20031203201149.42f58e2a.rddunlap@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <3FC4E8C8.4070902@free.fr> <20031126233738.GD1566@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> <3FC53A3B.50601@free.fr> <20031202160303.2af39da0.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20031203003106.GF4154@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> <20031202162745.40c99509.rddunlap@osdl.org> <3FCDE506.7020302@free.fr> <3FCE877B.3010703@free.fr> <20031204013408.GE29119@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> <20031203201149.42f58e2a.rddunlap@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > | > >Do you see any floppy disk activity at all? I'll see if i can come up with > | > >something. > | > > | > Yes, there *is* floppy activity. The previous messages make it to the > | > floppy (in that case, I experienced with > | > Alt-Sysrq+S/Alt-Sysrq+U/Alt-Sysrq+D), but the oops doesn't... > > It seems possible that these commands (above) are flushing the kernel > log buffer to disk (/var/log/messages e.g.), so that they don't need > to be saved by kmsgdump. Have you looked in the kernel message file > for them? In which case i'm slightly confused as to what's happening to the oops ;) Dare i delve into kmsgdump?