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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic?
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:03:33
Message-Id: CA+czFiBK5x3wTpLG=yxfYXOgGZibHLZD38guN1VBsCy-eU3HMg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic? by Jarry
1 On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 14-Mar-12 19:41, ZHANG, Le wrote:
3 >>
4 >>
5 >> >    So my question is: Can I somehow deliberately trigger
6 >> >    "kernel panic" (or "kernel oops")?
7 >>
8 >> For panic, echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
9 >
10 >
11 > After I issued the above mentioned command, my system
12 > instantly "froze to death". Nothing changed on screen,
13 > no "kernel panic" or "Ooops" screen. Just frozen...
14 >
15 > No reaction to keyboard or mouse. No auto-reboot either.
16 > The only thing I could do is to press "Reset". Not exactly
17 > what I have been expecting...
18
19 Were you running under X? The panic would have killed X, which
20 wouldn't have released control over the video hardware.
21
22 There's a SysRq sequence to get around this, but I don't remember it.
23
24 --
25 :wq

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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic? Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>