Just an FYI ... Guy was a great help in finding the reason
for the failed panic() cases. As it turns out, I was using
some older macros for SMP and frame pointers. Those have
now been corrected, and you can get the latest patches:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/download/current
The new tree is 3.1.1. Let me know if this corrects your
problem, Thomas. It should help greatly.
--Matt
Thomas Graichen wrote:
>
> Thomas Graichen <graichen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ...
> > sysname : Linux
> > nodename : oxygen.bln.innominate.de
> > release : 2.4.1-XFS
> > version : #4 SMP Sat Feb 17 11:13:08 CET 2001
> > machine : i586
>
> two more things:
>
> * the kernel is compiled SMP but the machine is a up machine (just that
> the uname output does not mislead you)
> * after a reboot of the crashdumpsaving-hanging system i was able
> to load the crash into lcrash and for instance do an "bt"
>
> t
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