Re: crashes without trace--module problem?

2009-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
I have finally confirmed that the problem was the ath5k driver (stays up days without it, crashes, usually within a day, with it). Upgrading the the latest trunk kernel (2.6.29) seems to have fixed it. I'm still curious if there is any more direct way of tracing such crashes, or of figuring out w

Re: crashes without trace--module problem?

2009-04-04 Thread Michael M. Moore
Ross Boylan wrote: I have a new system running Lenny, amd64 architecture and 8 core Xeon chips. It has been crashing regularly, often after less than 24 hours uptime. Could it be the powernow-k8 kernel module? That appears to have been the source of system-freezing problem I was having. I d

crashes without trace--module problem?

2009-03-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a new system running Lenny, amd64 architecture and 8 core Xeon chips. It has been crashing regularly, often after less than 24 hours uptime. There are indications the problem might be related to the ath5k wireless driver; details below. Google shows ath5k oops has lots of hits, but they s