[linux-dvb] Re: kernel panic when insmod driver

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Matthias Biel wrote:
> > > > > please pipe your oops log through ksymoops so that the symbols get 
> > > > > resolved. Otherwise it has no meaning to us.
> > > > >       
> > > > How can i do that?
> > > >
> > > >     
> > > Look at
> > >
> > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
> > >   
> > Am i right if i think i should send the according
> > *.ksyms and *.modules files from /var/log/ksymoops?
> >  
> When the kernel detect a problem, a dump of the current state (register 
> values, stack, ...) is generated and (with luck) written to a log file 
> (depending on your distribution). Sometimes its only printed on the 
> console..too bad if the screen safer was active  by that time.
> There is a patch available that write the state information to a floppy, 
> but I haven't tried it.
>
> In any case, you have to pipe the state information into ksymoops and 
> send the output to the list.
use

$ dmesg | ksymoops

in order to resolve the symbol names in the kernel log ringbuffer. You 
can use dmesg also to adjust the size of the logging buffer and to 
enable/disable kernel logs on the current console.

Holger



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