From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxM97-00031S-JE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:40:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93419E0375; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (unknown [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A2DE0375 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A27E348C for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:40:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:40:35 -0500 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel BUG Message-ID: <20081104084035.0b2f7267@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <38af3d670811040533l51e29fbexe30adfa0c45b4b0f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081104074318.777c538e@osage.osagesoftware.com> <38af3d670811040533l51e29fbexe30adfa0c45b4b0f@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aa442628-b6dc-4b6b-8c53-c609df4fc6f7 X-Archives-Hash: ac64f680e9491fc616b6a8eab5849289 On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:33:09 -0200 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto 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. ... [snip].... > >> > >> 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? At the moment I'm trying to capture the full BUG output. Once I have that, I'll report it and (likely) switch to a different kernel version with hopes of having a reliable system once again. David