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From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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Subject: Re: Simple question re: oops
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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.