[plug] crashing server

[Carl Gherardi]

On 14/09/2004, at 8:28 PM, James Devenish wrote:

> I don't
> know if Linux supports a crash-time debugger either. Not sure what
> kernel developers do.

Use the source, kdb (patch on top of mainline) or user mode linux.

OT: Anyone know if bochs can run a linux kernel?

> By the way: what version of Linux (i.e. kernel)
> are you using? How do you know the machine has to be rebooted? Does it:
> spit a panic message to the console? lock up completely? spontaneously
> reboot?
>

Does the keyboard light flash? If you can read morse code, you could 
get the oops that way.

Enabling the kernel debugging options aswell
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO

If its an X11 app try displaying it on another screen while looking at 
the console.

Hope that helps

Carl