On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:55:22PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > 1) Upgrade from hamm to potato (you might need to go to slink first). The > bug fixes along are worth it.
Could I use apt to do this? Is there somewhere a howto for doing this? > 2) Use a newer kernel. 2.2.9 is about 6 months old by now. There have > been quite a few bugs fixed since then. If you get these crashes with > the latest in the 2.2 line (2.2.14 at this writing) then you need to > report it as a bug. I tried to compile 2.2.14 but it failed with many error messages in console.c. Isn't it possible to run hamm with newer kernels. Last time I read on this list Debian is kernel independent (someone asked why his potato uses a 2.0.39 kernel). > These reports also need to carry more information. All you have are the > instructions that caused the fault - they don't mean anything unless it's > known how the kernel got to where it crashed. Yes, but before these last messages the screen was filled with addresses (all the same, not register addresses). And I couldn't find any hint in the log files (except the ^@ characters in syslog). Are there maybe any useful tools to watch the system more closely in order to have more information after a crash? --Werner
