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From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Rasmus Andersen <rasmus@jaquet.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reproducable oops in 2.2.17 and 2.2.18pre21
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:15:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001118021541.A726@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001117144938.F12733@jaquet.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20001117144938.F12733@jaquet.dk>; from rasmus@jaquet.dk on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 14:49:38 +0100


On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:49:38 Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I get an oops reproducably with 2.2.17 and 2.2.18pre21 on a stock RH 6.2
> system. I cannot trigger it with the RH supplied kernel (2.2.14-5.0).
> I also got it with 2.2.17pre10 which prompted me to upgrade the kernel.
> I initially suspected bad RAM but have exchanged the RAM with memtest86'ed
> RAM for no improvement.
> 
> What I do: I try to back the system up with tar zcvf /var/backup.tar.gz 
> -X exclude /lib /sbin /var /bin /etc /boot /home /root /usr
> (the exclude file contains the path of the file itself, i.e., 
> /var/ backup.tar.gz).
> 

Exclude /dev and /proc also, /lost+found if you have it, and /mnt if you 
only want that drive. Perhaps things like /proc/kcore make trouble...

-- 
Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta                                 #> cd /pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                     #> more beer

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-18  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-17 13:49 Reproducable oops in 2.2.17 and 2.2.18pre21 Rasmus Andersen
2000-11-17 15:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-11-18  1:15 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]

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