On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:36:24 +0200I hope not. But that actually why I post the script, to try an get
"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using the this very simple script for a while to do test
> builds of the kernel :
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> for i in $(seq 1 100); do
> nice make distclean
> while true; do
> nice make randconfig
> grep -q "CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y" .config
> if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
> break
> fi
> done
> cp .config config.${i}
> nice make -j3 > build.log.${i} 2>&1
> done
>
>
> Which has worked great in the past, but with recent kernels it has
> been a sure way to cause a complete lockup within 1 hour :-(
>
This is probably one of those nobody-but-you-can-reproduce-it things.
>I don't know, haven't tried - but I'll try the next few times it locks up.
> When the lockup happens the box just freezes and doesn't respond to
> anything at all. Sometimes I can reboot with alt+sysrq+b but sometimes
> not even that works.
If you can do sysrq-b then you can do sysrq-t, too?
Please ensure that you have all the CONFIG_DEBUG_* things set, apart from$ zgrep CONFIG_DEBUG_ /proc/config.gz
PAGEALLOC.
I've done that on a few occasions already without seeing anything, but
Once you've got the test set up and running, you can do the alt-ctl-F1
thing to take you out of X and into the vga console. I suggest you leave
it running that way, see if anything pops up when it hangs.