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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:14:20 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] recent crashes? Linux kernel 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5 (Linux
 Fedora Core 5)
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To: Jay Libove <libove@felines.org>
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:29:17 -0500
"Jay Libove" <libove@felines.org> wrote:

> Recently, possibly since the most recent one or two kernel upgrades in
> Linux Fedora Core 5, my system has been crashing with a kernel panic.
> The panic prevents anything useful from being written to any log files,
> but on the crash trace left on the screen each time I always see
> something which looks like it is in the bridge code.
> 

If it is a server, please capture the console log during the panic output,
then developers can analyze it.

Ways of doing that are (in order of usefulness):

1. Serial console - most reliable
2. Camera picture with digital camera.  Problem is screen resolution limits
   the amount of info. Also not easy to get a good picture
3. Netconsole. Problem is that for networking bugs, the panic output
   may never make it out.


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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>