On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:31:42PM +0100, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:55:32PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > 
> > If your system is totally frozen, I have doubt it's a qemu bug. Looks
> > like more a hardware or kernel problem.
> > 
> > You should send you system logs over the network, so that you can see
> > what happens when the computer crash.
> > 
> 
> Hello Aurelien,
> 
> the trouble is that I suspected various causes, and eliminated them all:
> - the /var/log/messages and syslog are empty for the minutes preceeding the
>   crash, only occasional '-- MARK --' lines 

Looking at that is not really relevant if your system totally freeze.
You may miss some messages that have not been written to the disk.

> - it's not linked to  thermal overrun, as I kept the CPU clock frequency low
>   enough to not overheat the laptop
> - last, I performed the same simulation under bochs: it is much slower,
>   but I didn't get a single lookup. Setup: block device and network emulation
>   are exactly the same than under qemu
> 
> OTOH, I didn't experience lookups recently (in the last 3 month) in any
> other circumstances.
> 
> So maybe qemu is triggering some hardware or kernel bug, how to debug ?
> 

You have to send your system logs to a second machine, it is the only
way to have a possible log of the crash.

Aurelien

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