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 1KxPHe-00045G-Ba for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:01:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEE3DE0403; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:01:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61D7E0403 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:01:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id C7AA521CDDA for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:01:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE8B21CDC8 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:01:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from [2001:638:605:eea0:219:66ff:fe86:ce12] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.9) with ESMTPSA id 38548399 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:01:33 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel BUG Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:01:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.27.4r4; KDE/4.1.71; x86_64; ; ) References: <20081104074318.777c538e@osage.osagesoftware.com> <38af3d670811040533l51e29fbexe30adfa0c45b4b0f@mail.gmail.com> <20081104084035.0b2f7267@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20081104084035.0b2f7267@osage.osagesoftware.com> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811041801.32638.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 6891f19b-0cd9-4e7e-b79a-a39feb93d1f1 X-Archives-Hash: cb7c8d18f9bd5b41f46d928378c2660b On Dienstag 04 November 2008, David Relson wrote: > 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 install vanilla-sources. if crash happens again, report to lkml. Joining is not necessary nor recommended.