On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 21:24 -0400, Olivier Diotte wrote: > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: [...] > > The thing is, the kernel doesn't write to kern.log; the syslog daemon > > does. If you get a soft-lockup message in kern.log then it proves > > the system was still somewhat responsive. > > > Hum, I tried to correlate the lockup with the logs, but maybe this > thing gets written before or even is unrelated to the lockup.
Perhaps you can use netconsole or serial console to capture any further log messages after the soft-lockup warning? > There also seems be a few issues with the WiFi USB dongle as can be > seen in the kernel log output from my bug report, but I remember > seeing something that looked like crashes also. I will look into this > monday when I have access to the machine. > > > Please send the contents of /proc/meminfo. > > > Yes, I suppose a filled memory could be related. I will try to get the > contents of this file, but I am not sure if that will be possible if > the system is locked up (magic keys don't seem to work either, though > I will confirm that monday). [...] Actually I wanted to know what it looks like before you start the Doxygen run. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your sig.
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