How to debug crash on laptop with no serial port

Denis Hennessy dhennessy at valista.com
Wed Feb 4 09:49:06 UTC 2004


Good call. After running memtest86 overnight, I find that I do have 
faulty memory (I had replaced the standard IBM memory with 1GB from 
Crucial).

Thanks to all for the help.

/dh

Pete Zaitcev wrote:

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>First I should say I'm not too optimistic about it, because
>applications dying randomly usually point to a bad SODIMM. So, in the
>end, it's not likely a console can help a lot. Both 2.4 and 2.6
>crashing tells us something too.
>
>That said, try to set up Ingo's netconsole. At least you should be
>able to see the oops when LEDs flash. I do not remember if netconsole
>is enabled in Fedora. It might need some rebuilding, but this is what
>I would do. Start here:
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2001-09/msg00107.html
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