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Unfortunately, no. From earlier in the thread: |
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"if the GPF triggers in code that doesn't expect it, then the kernel may |
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as well be too toast to get that out into the filesystem." |
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David C. Manuelda wrote: |
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> Aren't those messages logged in /var/log/messages despite the crash? I can see |
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> them when I have a crash like that and can't start my system. |
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> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 04:24:42 Brian A. Davis wrote: |
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>> Netconsole doesn't seem to be available int he hardened kernel. Am I |
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>> missing something? |
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>> flagg src # ls -lt |
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>> total 16 |
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>> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jul 21 22:23 linux-2.6.25.9 |
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>> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jul 21 22:21 linux-2.6.24-hardened-r3 |
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>> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jul 7 23:04 linux-2.6.23-hardened-r12 |
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>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 7 15:19 linux -> linux-2.6.24-hardened-r3 |
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>> drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Jun 30 22:18 linux-2.6.23-hardened-r13 |
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>> flagg src # cd linux |
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>> flagg linux # pwd |
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>> /usr/src/linux |
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>> flagg linux # grep NETCONSOLE .config |
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>> flagg linux # |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Brian |
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>> Will Keaney wrote: |
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>>> Brian A. Davis wrote: |
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>>>> I'm getting a PAX General protection fault, which outputs a stack |
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>>>> trace to the console (monitor), but there's no way for me to get it |
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>>>> since the machine is crashed at this point. |
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>>>> Where would this be getting logged? grep PAX * in /var/log doesn't |
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>>>> turn up anything. |
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>>>> Thanks, |
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>>>> Brian |
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>>> There are a couple of ways to get the trace from this. One is to |
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>>> attach a serial console to the machine in question and log the crash |
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>>> from another computer (see |
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>>> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt). |
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>>> Another is to configure netconsole, which will allow you to capture |
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>>> kernel messages from another machine over ethernet. See |
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>>> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for |
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>>> instructions on this. |
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>>> If you have a digital camera, you can take a picture of the stack trace. |
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>>> Finally, you can transcribe it by hand. This is veeeery tedious. |
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>>> Hope this helps. |
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>>> Will |
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