Re: Simple question re: oops

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 02:11 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 07:48:11PM -0400 Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > I have a machine here that oopses reliably when I start X, but the
> > interesting stuff scrolls away too fast, and a bunch more Oopses get
> > printed ending with "Aieee, killing interrupt handler".
> > 
> > How do I get the output to stop after the first Oops?
> > 
> 
> set /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops to 1
> 
> What version of the kernel is that? It shouldn't do recursive oopses
> (of the same task) any more.
> 

2.6.10 (whatever comes with Ubuntu Hoary).  It's a demo install for a
client on cobbled together hardware.  First I suspected the bleeding
edge GeForce video card, then we swapped it which didn't help.  Now I
suspect the hard drive (or a kernel bug).

And I was wrong, it wasn't more Oopses, it was "scheduling while atomic"
messages that forced the interesting stuff offscreen.

Lee