Re: 2.6.12-rc4 random oopses

From: Maneesh Soni
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 03:33:53 EST


On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 03:02:08PM +0000, Phil Oester wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:18:15PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > How long can your machine stay up under 2.6.11/2.6.12-rc4? Is 2.6.10
> > still stable if rebuild it?
>
> Machine stays up 'forever' on 2.6.10, dies within ~4 hours on 2.6.11+.
> Yes, I have rebuilt 2.6.10 with some backported patches, and it still
> works fine.
>
> > If 2.6.10 is still proving to be stable, then please do a bisection
> > search on the releases between 2.6.10/2.6.11. That may be the only
> > way we can track this problem down.
>
> Unfortunately the box is the firewall for my employer's west coast office
> so I can only get away with one unexplained natural phenomenon per
> day. May take awhile...
>
> Phil

Hello,

Is it possilbe to try recreating the problems with 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 with kdump
enabled? Please refer Documentation/kdump.txt in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 kernel
sources. I think kernel crash dump could provide here more info.


Thanks
Maneesh

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Maneesh Soni
Linux Technology Center,
IBM India Software Labs,
Bangalore, India
email: maneesh@xxxxxxxxxx
Phone: 91-80-25044990
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