2.4.x kernel crashing

2001-12-04 Thread Russell Hires
Hey everyone, I've written about this before, but I've specific questions now ;-) I'm running stock 2.4.16, self compiled, on a Beige G3/266, with KDE as my window manager. I get random crashes with any 2.4.x kernel. I would like to use xmon to figure out what's wrong so that I can get it fixe

Re: 2.4.x kernel crashing

2001-12-04 Thread Benny Siegert
Hello! >>> Russell Hires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04.12.2001 14.30 Uhr >>> > I want to record this xmon info to a file, which I tried, but it didn't save. Maybe the program sends ist output to stderr? Have you tried "xmon foo bar 2>&1 > myfile"? --benny.

Re: 2.4.x kernel crashing

2001-12-04 Thread Josh Huber
"Benny Siegert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe the program sends ist output to stderr? Have you tried "xmon > foo bar 2>&1 > myfile"? That would be rather difficult since xmon is a in-kernel debugger... ttyl, -- Josh Huber | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: 2.4.x kernel crashing

2001-12-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 14:30, Russell Hires wrote: > I'm running stock 2.4.16, self compiled, on a Beige G3/266, with KDE as my > window manager. I get random crashes with any 2.4.x kernel. I would like to > use xmon to figure out what's wrong so that I can get it fixed, but I can't > see the te

Re: 2.4.x kernel crashing

2001-12-05 Thread Russell Hires
> That machine has a Mach64 chip, right? I forgot to include an important detail: I'm actually running with a Voodoo3 card. > if before > running X, you set the VT X runs on to the same depth (using fbset) you > have configured in X. You'll have to find out yourself. I guess I've got more readi

Re: 2.4.x kernel crashing

2001-12-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 01:00, Russell Hires wrote: > > > If that was the only problem... when you're in xmon, bad things have > > happened and everything is interrupted. Only when you exit xmon (by > > entering 'x') does the system continue to run. So there is no filesystem > > access in xmon. > Ty

Re: 2.4.x kernel crashing

2001-12-10 Thread Russell Hires
Okay, accepting for the moment that when the kernel dies, I can't read the console to find out what went wrong, what else can I do to figure out what's wrong? Which kernel or other system logs would tell me? I do know that for some reason, heavy disk activity kills the kernel. I run anacron, a

Re: 2.4.x kernel crashing

2001-12-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 15:34, Russell Hires wrote: > Okay, accepting for the moment that when the kernel dies, I can't read the > console to find out what went wrong, what else can I do to figure out what's > wrong? Which kernel or other system logs would tell me? /var/log/kern.log, but as it se