Re: 1.3.72 instability

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:09:24 +0000 (GMT)

On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I've seen a few of these, and they _all_ seem to be related to module
> use. I simply cannot debug panic's that happen in a module (as you can
> see, the stack trace and EIP are not even found by ksymoops), especially
> as I don't even know _what_ module it is.
>
Is there any way to produce a current System.map, including the modules
that are in now ? Something like what happens to produce System.map, but
with the running version ? (ie something like nm /proc/vmlinux-current |
grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$$\)\|\( a \)' | sort >System.map-current).

> (It _looks_ like this might be a mouse module, as it's gpm that crashes,
> but which one?)
>
> I'd love to fix this, but I need more information. When does it seem to
> happen? The above looks like it happened while trying to open the mouse
> (?) device, but it obviously doesn't happen all the time, or your
> machine wouldn't stay up for even one day..
>
It would be much easyer if you could get these out of range symbols maped.

[...]
>
> Linus
>
Bryn

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