join the lkml (linux kernel mailing list) and let them know about it? On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:43 AM, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> For about a week, my workstation has been crashing every day or so. > Typically it happens late at night while BackupPC is backing up a hard > drive. With "tail -F /var/log/messages" running I saw EXT3 mentioned a > few days ago and started suspecting a hard drive problem. > > Last night it happened again. This time my "tail ..." window was > opened full screen so I saw all the messages and know more. Here's > part of what I wrote down (until I got tired of writing): > > BUG unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000008 > IP ffffff8027ce14 free_block+0xb4/0x160 > PGD 11b638067 PUD 11b631067 PMD 0 > Oops 0002[1]SMP > ... > Call Trace > 8027cac0 cache_flusharray+0x60/0xe0 > 8027cc46 kmem_cache_free > > I'm running a 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 > > To learn more about what's happening (and to more easily record > all the kernel messages), I'm now running "tail -F /var/log/messages" > from a second machine (via an SSH session). > > Questions: > > Is there a better way to capture the full BUG output??? > Once I have the full BUG output, what's the next useful thing to do? > > Thanks! > > David > > > -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
