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 1KxM1v-0001xM-8Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:33:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31DFEE0249; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5D9E0249 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so1326169ywm.46 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:33:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=ncaTv9NzlOxLYlWqOG3xlXSSn8q9g8QUFk6TZclRZZY=; b=F527RGn3NalasnuRnE4PrliyAvZzMyLTumLKA06VWGsuAZNna/l21K6XehbAcfSJFq skmj6FW7hio32XAosajJxHggxbq6Wz/kNw+q2oBBT0RuKGnuTOQAfVrefDV+PNlUOqYY 5QoJNMlI2w8TxHsRggIzryz6UC/GokM7dEmrU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=TIjKrWxZKBia5NFltXvteMfExe/Oqpu9p8NruM2WZzhhP90Ps1WdB+QMAZCxM0zEMr TkcEQW4YleOUUtHIxKFw7dLOFMknW9nLwQyp7uZPvj2FyAtmIRH5OB2V5GJcw+NBfsC5 EcWn49sz+dTApKRObNb5seLxjrQv0UxRvwC1s= Received: by 10.90.97.18 with SMTP id u18mr1067866agb.106.1225805589461; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:33:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.81.1 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 05:33:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38af3d670811040533l51e29fbexe30adfa0c45b4b0f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:33:09 -0200 From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" Sender: jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel BUG In-Reply-To: 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 References: <20081104074318.777c538e@osage.osagesoftware.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: ee40488af360fa43 X-Archives-Salt: e17ed081-be43-49ea-9663-58058315ae63 X-Archives-Hash: 9f92dea408b4a04d7c4c7425270bab6d >> >> 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?