Re: 2.5 kernel hangs system

Murray J. Root (murrayr@brain.org)
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:29:03 -0400


On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:11:46AM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 23:00, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > First, I don't understand how as you say, "suggestions are
> > desperately needed" on a developmental kernel. These things are
> > not known to work on all configurations and some information like
> > "It gives me hex codes..." is worthless. Please write down
> > these "hex-codes" and, after booting a version the works, run them
> > through ksymoops. If you don't know what that is:
>
> ksymoops? I thought 2.5 kernels didn't need ksymoops anymore and that
> function names were automatically "guessed" in call stack traces.
>

IFF you use "include symbols" when building you shouldn't need ksymoops.
IMO, if you're using 2.5.x you really should include the symbols - chances
are you'll need em.

-- 
Murray J. Root

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