On Jan 19, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 19:23 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Thanks, Ben, for the very quick response! >> >> I'd love to do that. But I don't have a serial console for this >> machine (no serial port -- it's a PowerMac "MacPro" G5, 64-bit CPU) >> and the messages logged at crash time scroll off the screen too fast >> for me to copy them down (or even photograph). >> >> I'll make a photograph of the last screen's worth of messages and send >> that to the bug, if you think that will help. > > It might do. OK. That's worth a try then. > >> Do you know of any way to get more information than that? I'd really >> like to help get this bug fixed (I've got plans for this machine but I >> can't go forward with them until I can reboot it reliably) > > You might also be able to use netconsole > <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt>. I'll read up and see if I can make it work for this case. > >> Does it help any that the G4 (32-bit CPU) sitting right beside it, >> running an identical software setup, reboots just fine? > > I have no idea what the differences could be. Unfortunately there are > no kernel maintainers for powerpc in Debian so all I can do is prompt > for useful information and then refer you upstream. Thanks! for helping any way you can… > Ben. Rick > > -- > Ben Hutchings > One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. Words to live by! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
