reboot without any info

Sean McNeil sean at mcneil.com
Sun Dec 19 23:26:04 PST 2004


On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 20:34 -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 15:17 -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> >> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Sean McNeil wrote:
> >>
> >>> This happens with a world/kernel and a portupgrade -frR totem built
> >>> Today:
> >>>
> >>> From rom a user account, I did a gdb `which totem` and then an r.  This
> >>> caused a reboot.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I think everyone has hardware fault on the brain right now.  Please note
> > that the system works perfectly - even under extreme load - until the
> > moment I run totem in the debugger.  Then it is instant.  I would never
> > consider this behavior as hardware related.
> 
> I would suggest hooking up a serial or firewire console on this machine 
> and logging any output. If nothing relevant turns up, you may wish to try 
> and reproduce the problem while running gdb under strace or truss (I am 
> not familiar with the status of these programs under AMD64. YMMV) while 
> logged at a serial console.

Yes, I agree this is the best approach.  Does anyone have a dconschat
that works under MacOSX, Linux, or Windows?

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