[clug] Causing a kernel oops

Darren Freeman daz111 at rsphysse.anu.edu.au
Tue Sep 2 14:54:27 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 13:40, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:34:16PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > 
> > It looks just like this:
> 
> I remember seeing something involving ASCII art of something pulling a 
> face, did that get done away with at some point?

I think that's ksymoops you're thinking of. Looks like a funny little
gremlin sticking its tongue out or something.

Yes it's still around but it's a userland tool that looks at your kernel
messages to try to resolve all the numbers into kernel symbols by
reading your kernel image.

> Andrew

Darren




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