Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 | Date | Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:49:01 -0400 |
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Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 September 2004 06:33, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >>* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote: >> >>>>what i use is serial logging to another machine. A digital camera >>>>is fine too, if the problem area is still visible on the screen. >>>>(Netconsole is useful too for other type of hangs but it's not >>>>active at such an early stage yet.) >>>> >>>>Ingo >>> >>>Unforch, I don't have a spare seriel port Ingo. One is running my >>>x10 >> >>fortunately with the patch applied your box works now (so does mine) >>so the bug appears to be fixed. > > > I just built a kernel with that latest stack-fix patch in it too, but > haven't rebooted to it yet. I read that as being moderately > important in some cases although I don't think I've encountered that > particular case yet. Was this in fact a good idea for me? > > >>early-bootup debugging was never easy, and breakage there doesnt >>happen all that often. Hopefully this was the last one related to >>remove-BKL. >> >>(If such a early-bootup lockup happens in the future then you sure >>could temporarily unplug the ups serial connection and use that as >>the serial console - for the narrow and temporary purpose of >>debugging that boot-time hang.) > > > That would I assume need a null modem cable, and what do I run on the > firewall? Minicom? Or is there something better that can just grab > and log without being interactive? Its a rh7.3 box with a 2.4.18 era > kernel. I'd update that, but its not broken. :)
I use Kermit, it will do about everything you could ask and gives a single interface for serial and network console connections.
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