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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 19:26:52
Message-Id: CA+czFiBX==KFAwOO1WXC7XN685x1_dth=n-SFXKWyZ6_7KkVCw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic? by Mick
1 On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Thursday 15 Mar 2012 17:02:15 Michael Mol wrote:
3 >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> > On 14-Mar-12 19:41, ZHANG, Le wrote:
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 >> > After I issued the above mentioned command, my system
11 >> > instantly "froze to death". Nothing changed on screen,
12 >> > no "kernel panic" or "Ooops" screen. Just frozen...
13 >> >
14 >> > No reaction to keyboard or mouse. No auto-reboot either.
15 >> > The only thing I could do is to press "Reset". Not exactly
16 >> > what I have been expecting...
17 >>
18 >> Were you running under X? The panic would have killed X, which
19 >> wouldn't have released control over the video hardware.
20 >>
21 >> There's a SysRq sequence to get around this, but I don't remember it.
22 >
23 > Ctrl+Alt+
24 >
25 > R E I S U B
26 >
27 > (busier in reverse)
28 >
29 > After a E or I you should be back into a console, unless things are badly
30 > screwed.
31
32 Is that Ctrl+Alt+SysRq+(R E I S U B), or is the SysRq key not actually used?
33
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36 --
37 :wq

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic? Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>