I wrote:
>> Have we gotten to the point where I should copy all the "Oops" messages
>> from the logs and paste them into an email?
The helpful Michel D�nzer (Where are you from Michel? How do I pronounce your
name?) replied:
> That might be interesting, but only after piping them through ksymoops.
Sorry to ask what is probably a silly question if you know the answer (or where
exactly to find the answer) but...
OK, over the weekend I backed up everything on my linux partition, deleted all
the files, and then reinstalled everything. I copied my APT sources list and
cache after the base install, so the whole process took well under 24 hours,
and I was sleeping for a few of those :) Hopefully none of the .deb files were
corrupted and causing my problem, but I really didn't want to download much on
a 28.8.
Since then I've had a few freezes, but of course that doesn't provide any
information. Then today I got some "Oops" messages running BitchX (which of
course had been working before, and worked again after I restarted). So I ran
ksymoops on the kernel log in /var/log (I can't remember what it is called,
/var/kern.log I think). This showed that I actually got an Oops yesterday that
I didn't notice.
This was the first part of the ksymoops output:
ksymoops 2.4.5 on ppc 2.4.18-powerpc. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/ (default)
-m /boot/System.map-2.4.18-powerpc (default)
Warning: You did not tell me where to find symbol information. I will
assume that the log matches the kernel and modules that are running
right now and I'll use the default options above for symbol resolution.
If the current kernel and/or modules do not match the log, you can get
more accurate output by telling me the kernel version and where to find
map, modules, ksyms etc. ksymoops -h explains the options.
Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol xchg_u32 , ksyms_base says
c000bb20, System.map says c0006830. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol packet_socks_nr , af_packet says
c792ed24, /lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/kernel/net/packet/af_packet.o says
c792b004. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/kernel/net/packet/af_packet.o
entry
Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol sysctl_unix_max_dgram_qlen , unix
says c7826148, /lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/kernel/net/unix/unix.o says
c7822000. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/kernel/net/unix/unix.o entry
Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol unix_table_lock , unix says
c782614c, /lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/kernel/net/unix/unix.o says c7822004.
Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/kernel/net/unix/unix.o entry
Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol unix_tot_inflight , unix says
c782615c, /lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/kernel/net/unix/unix.o says c7822014.
Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.18-powerpc/kernel/net/unix/unix.o entry
So apparently I need to specify where to get the symbols. Something to do with
the "-k" option and /var/log/ksymoops, but beyond that I don't know.
