Re: Linux kdb (was Re: first thread)

["Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>]

> Well, I thought we were talking about post mortem debugging. I think
> a lot of panics / deadly oopses are not reported because people do
> not really enjoy copying a longish Oops message by hand, feeding it
> to ksymoops and reporting it to linux-kernel.

Yes. We need to get good bug reports from clueless people.

> We could really do with a more user-friendly alternative,
> which is what a dump partition, some utilities aso. could give us.

No, that is not user-friendly at all.

If we put System.map into the kernel, we could get symbol info
in the oops message. That would be very good to have, because
people are less willing to copy down "random" numbers.

Don't mention klogd and ksymoops: you must assume that system logs are
never checked and that a crash will get ignored unless it is easy to
report. The kernel ought to print "mail all you see to ...".
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