From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263137AbVGaASZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:18:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263134AbVGaARe (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:17:34 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:29387 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263128AbVGaAPU (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:15:20 -0400 Subject: Re: Simple question re: oops From: Lee Revell To: Alexander Nyberg Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20050731001101.GA6762@localhost.localdomain> References: <1122767292.4464.1.camel@mindpipe> <20050731001101.GA6762@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:15:15 -0400 Message-Id: <1122768916.4464.8.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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