From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04CB21381F3 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3C87E0B4E; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f52.google.com (mail-vb0-f52.google.com [209.85.212.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9E1AE0AFF for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:26:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f52.google.com with SMTP id f12so6684754vbg.25 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 04:26:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=nVRcBhNIEh1iJ7qG9mIbl+OJEXAMcU/EbubmmFf5U5o=; b=IWxCIYgptRqFGVTHF6zO9sKc+zJDoxm5sY/UAwuZ9bBRQ4Xz0ksb4sK195m7LVCf2L jWhuz+KRKu5GA5Uw+Ttobn3cSnqEv8VL2jFRAMCmgXwotXDnh4pr09DQKovmaIPMuRnZ jjnaKIt54KFmFRAo8OpYBc2csee7oP1buwb7sKbjlVUav//Zls5oyQmIdaSx6gAH00OW QmwVMs1BGWM7ANHQu31QEsg0SH8APKeufXfKCCJaKd0rHcP/rGaVtOB0pFAs5C/xouw+ 4RXsMAjp0VZeD9NDqWXrRN9gwfkucQS4a2ADzxntnqN5o4Gt9lNMe8L7Ega00NiXCXCI +j7A== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.113.162 with SMTP id iz2mr6559464vdb.0.1371900364113; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 04:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.180.98 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 04:26:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51C586DB.9040005@gentoo.org> References: <51A08A68.3020900@gentoo.org> <20130620205609.GB23719@linux1> <20130621043959.7eae0921@gentoo.org> <51C42B33.9090709@gentoo.org> <1371814006.2486.10.camel@localhost> <51C43DEA.6000006@gentoo.org> <20130621143657.GA26044@linux1> <1371829739.2486.20.camel@localhost> <1371895644.30388.7.camel@localhost> <51C586DB.9040005@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:26:04 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ajWto_uHgYTefvSVIDZ_jU1Fm04 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eselect init From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 49d89ca4-1106-41c3-bdca-c92bb5329ca4 X-Archives-Hash: 3d178d05d74d95407c52e7d9ad0085b9 On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Michael Weber wrote: > === kexec === > speaking of panic. I've never actually used it, but newer kernels > support kexec and in conjunction with pre-loaded panic-images[1] and > corresponding (compiled-in) initramfs, it'd be possible to have an > recovery shell. for either /sbin/init mixups, or late runtime crashes. > These should have a the decency to respect the panic= timeout to allow > automated reboots or idle till to the end of days. I wrote up the wiki guide on this, but for the last six months I haven't been able to get it to work. If somebody does have it working please see if the guide needs updating - something seems to have changed. It is annoying because my system seems to freeze up on rare occasion and I'm sure there is a panic/etc on the console obscured by X11. At the moment, however, some kind of xorg freezeup seems to be what is driving me crazy (seems like a driver puts it into a loop and makes it freeze for 30s at a time, with even alt-sysrq-r not always working. Moving both kernel and xorg from stable to ~arch didn't help with that either... Ugh. Rich