How To Cause An Oops

[Joseph Salisbury]

On 01/18/2012 09:21 AM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> 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
>
>>
>> -apw
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Perfect.  Thanks Andy and Herton!