join the lkml (linux kernel mailing list) and let them know about it?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:43 AM, David Relson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:relson@osagesoftware.com">relson@osagesoftware.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">For about a week, my workstation has been crashing every day or so.<br>
Typically it happens late at night while BackupPC is backing up a hard<br>
drive. With &quot;tail -F /var/log/messages&quot; running I saw EXT3 mentioned a<br>
few days ago and started suspecting a hard drive problem.<br>
<br>
Last night it happened again. &nbsp;This time my &quot;tail ...&quot; window was<br>
opened full screen so I saw all the messages and know more. &nbsp;Here&#39;s<br>
part of what I wrote down (until I got tired of writing):<br>
<br>
 &nbsp;BUG unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000008<br>
 &nbsp;IP &nbsp; ffffff8027ce14 free_block+0xb4/0x160<br>
 &nbsp;PGD 11b638067 PUD 11b631067 PMD 0<br>
 &nbsp;Oops 0002[1]SMP<br>
 &nbsp;...<br>
 &nbsp;Call Trace<br>
 &nbsp; &nbsp; 8027cac0 cache_flusharray+0x60/0xe0<br>
 &nbsp; &nbsp; 8027cc46 kmem_cache_free<br>
<br>
I&#39;m running a 2.6.25-gentoo-r7<br>
<br>
To learn more about what&#39;s happening (and to more easily record<br>
all the kernel messages), I&#39;m now running &quot;tail -F /var/log/messages&quot;<br>
from a second machine (via an SSH session).<br>
<br>
Questions:<br>
<br>
 &nbsp;Is there a better way to capture the full BUG output???<br>
 &nbsp;Once I have the full BUG output, what&#39;s the next useful thing to do?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
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David<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Hazen Valliant-Saunders<br>IT/IS Consultant<br>(613) 355-5977<br>