Re: Kernel oops

[Juha K Kallio <bunnyh@banix.ihme.org>]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 04:58:19PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:51:44 +0200, 
> Juha K Kallio <bunnyh@banix.ihme.org> wrote:
> >I got a kernel oops on the display this morning when i woke up. It had
> >something about kupdated being killed, but i can't get the whole error,
> >since it could't log anymore. 
> >Right after i tried to read my mail, it crashed. Strangely i could still
> >exec binaries.. Any idea what might have caused this?
> 
> To do any debugging we need the first oops (all of it) run through
> ksymoops.  Without that plus your kernel version, XFS version, gcc
> etc., there is no hope of debugging this.
>


I've never had a kernel oops before, so I'm really not experienced in
debugging. But I have /var/log/ksymoops and some files in there, do I
have to do something with those? Strangely, some of them are dated three
days back, I hadn't any problems before this morning.