A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > 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.
What are the errors? > Isn't it possible to run hamm with newer kernels. It should be. Sometimes you need to upgrade various user-level programs though. > 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 > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
