On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 04:37, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Does turning on kdump and installing debuginfo kernel stuff change >> things in a way that a watchdog oops won't happen? > > I doubt the debuginfo package install has anything to do with it, as > that is really only used by things like crash (and maybe perf?). > Enabling kdump does cause some changes though, as the kernel will > reserve a section of memory to put the kdump kernel in. It's > plausible that your machine is tripping on some memory issues and > enabling kdump is forcing the kernel to not touch that memory at > runtime. It's something of a long shot but it's plausible. I am going to try the memtest. The system this morning was incredibly sluggish with a yum install taking several times longer than in the past. A reboot of the system this morning had it oops a lot on agetty versus working.. but it locked up solid so a power reboot was needed so I couldn't get anything 'saved' from ram. sigh. Will run memtest86 for the day and see if that gets anything. I had tested the system earlier on my rawhide experience with the IBM maintenance tools but they may miss something. > If you haven't already, try running memtest86+ for a while and see if > it comes back with any errors. > > josh > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
