Re: [Lksctp-developers] Kernel panic with SCTP on Dell Inspiron B130

[Neil H. <nh...@tu...>]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:16:40PM +1000, Jan Newmarch wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Further update: the panic DOES occur with kernels 2.6.20.6, 2.6.20.8
> and 2.6.21.1 on a Dell Inspiron B130. It does NOT occur on a Thinkpad
> T41 with the same configurations. On the Dell, these cases happen:
> 
> - with sctp and crypto statically compiled, the panic does NOT occur
> - with sctp as module and crypto as static, the panic does NOT occur
> - with both sctp and crypto as modules, the panic DOES occur
> 
> SCTP is compiled with HMAC-MD5
> 
> How do I capture the panic dump? I don't have serial ports on these laptops.
> 
2.6.20 kernels should have kexec/kdump available with them.  I'd suggest
installing kexec-tools and configuring kdump to record the vmcore.  We can read
out the oops backtrace from that (among lots of other usefull info).

Thanks & Regards
Neil