>> >> 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? >>
> join the lkml (linux kernel mailing list) and let them know about it? > For a patched kernel like gentoo-sources, wouldn't it be appropriate better to file a bug report at Gentoo's bugzilla?
