kerneloops

[Phill Whiteside]

installed and rebooted... so far, so good :)

Regards.

Phill.


On 14 February 2014 17:29, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 05:22:46PM +0000, Barry Drake wrote:
> > On 14/02/14 16:32, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> > >I've had 14.04 running (lubuntu) since the alpha 1's went out. The
> > >only issue I've seen with kernel was the i386 one refusing to boot
> > >on a KVM. This has been resolved with the latest kernel release.
> > >Apart from that, it has been all been rock solid :)
> >
> > Have installed kerneloops ....   The only ongoing issue I have is
> > the reported bug in lightdm in which the login screen doesn't find
> > the keyboard spasmodically.  Currently I'm using gdm for the time
> > being, but it does slow things down a bit.  Other than that, I've
> > had very few bugs since I installed pre-alpha right at the beginning
> > of the cycle.
>
> Maybe I should clarify what kerneloops does, it looks for OOPS messages
> from the running kernel in /var/log/syslog and then prepares a
> kerneloops report which is then handed to apport and additional data is
> gathered to augment the already gathered data.  From there the "crash"
> report can be sent to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and Launchpad.
>
> Here is part of what an OOPS as found in /var/log/syslog looks like:
>
> Feb 13 13:34:15 localhost kernel: [36701.217227] BUG: unable to handle
> kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
> Feb 13 13:34:15 localhost kernel: [36701.217379] IP:
> [<ffffffffa0011012>] my_oops_init+0x12/0x1000 [oops]
> Feb 13 13:34:15 localhost kernel: [36701.217491] PGD 0
> Feb 13 13:34:15 localhost kernel: [36701.217525] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
> ...
> Feb 13 13:34:15 localhost kernel: [36701.277919] ---[ end trace
> f166bd03a370511f ]---
>
> Without kerneloops enabled you'd like be unaware of these issues, unless
> you read your syslog regularly. ;-)
>
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