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"><<a href="mailto:relson@osagesoftware.com">relson@osagesoftware.com</a>></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 "tail -F /var/log/messages" running I saw EXT3 mentioned a<br> few days ago and started suspecting a hard drive problem.<br> <br> Last night it happened again. This time my "tail ..." window was<br> opened full screen so I saw all the messages and know more. Here's<br> part of what I wrote down (until I got tired of writing):<br> <br> BUG unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000008<br> IP ffffff8027ce14 free_block+0xb4/0x160<br> PGD 11b638067 PUD 11b631067 PMD 0<br> Oops 0002[1]SMP<br> ...<br> Call Trace<br> 8027cac0 cache_flusharray+0x60/0xe0<br> 8027cc46 kmem_cache_free<br> <br> I'm running a 2.6.25-gentoo-r7<br> <br> To learn more about what's happening (and to more easily record<br> all the kernel messages), I'm now running "tail -F /var/log/messages"<br> from a second machine (via an SSH session).<br> <br> Questions:<br> <br> Is there a better way to capture the full BUG output???<br> Once I have the full BUG output, what's the next useful thing to do?<br> <br> Thanks!<br> <font color="#888888"><br> David<br> <br> <br> </font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Hazen Valliant-Saunders<br>IT/IS Consultant<br>(613) 355-5977<br>