[18344] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.11: afs client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Sep 26 10:31:57 2000
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 26 Sep 2000 10:31:51 -0400
In-Reply-To: Camilla R Fox's message of "Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:24:11 -0400"
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<cfox@MIT.EDU> (Camilla R Fox) writes:
>
> Is there anything I can do to get useful debugging information next
> time? This seems like a bug we won't fix without a crash dump, but I
> don't know if there's a linux mechanism for this that which we can
> enable.
Linux doesn't support crash dumps; the kernel attempts to recover from
minor errors, and when it encounters a major error the attitude is
"we're too scrod to be sure we'd write to a useful place."
(Dumping post-reboot wouldn't work either, because the BIOS clears
all of memory.)
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
