2940AU problems
John Sutton
john at scl.co.uk
Tue Apr 10 03:18:30 PDT 2001
On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >> First off, provide as much information as you can about the
> >> failure. Where did the oops occur? You can determine that
> >> by installing kdb and using its trace command or by copying
> >> down all of the oops information and feeding it to ksymoops.
> >
> >Do you mean gdb? I've got this but I can't see how to use it to debug=
a kerne
> >l
> >module? =20
>=20
> Nope, kdb. It is available from SGI here:
>=20
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/
>=20
> Why Linux doesn't come with a kernel debugger is beyond me.
OK, I'll have a go with that. I've come to a halt with ksymoops because =
the
swine now refuses to do an oops. It's reverted to the old behaviour - co=
mplete
lockup with nothing written to the logs ;-(
> >janus kernel: ahc_pci:0:11:0: Reading SEEPROM...done.
> >janus kernel: ahc_pci:0:11:0: internal 50 cable not present
> >janus kernel: ahc_pci:0:11:0: external cable is present
>=20
> Is this correct? All of your devices are on an external cable?
> If so, then the controller termination at least is correct.
Yes. Disk, cdrom and tape streamer are all external, nothing is inside t=
he
box. (The box is a diskless client which mounts it's root over NFS. I l=
ike
machines without any moving parts because you can kick them with impunity=
;-)
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John Sutton
SCL Computer Services
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