How To Cause An Oops

Wed Jan 18 14:21:15 UTC 2012

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:10:03PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:23:17PM -0500, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there a way to generate or simulate an oops on purpose?  This
> > would be helpful to perform testing while the kerneloops.org site is
> > down.
> 
> I believe there is a sysrq code for oopsing, which you can do either
> from the keyboard or /proc/something/something.

Yes, "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger" should do it

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