Re: RFC : remote driver debugging efforts

["Jesse Brandeburg" <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>]

On 8/10/06, Om N. <xhandle@gmail.com> wrote:
> (I do not have a remote power on/off switch. The driver panics so
> often that somebody has to babysit the machine to switch it off and
> on. We are in different time zones and things are not moving forward at all)

two (or three) things I've done to help this, when I'm working remotely

add panic=30 to your kernel options in grub (or echo 30 >
/proc/sys/kernel/panic) to reboot the system automatically on panic.

set grub to automatically boot the safe kernel by default, and when
making a new kernel, set grub to boot it only once with (say your
default is 0 and the new kernel is 1 in grub)

echo 'savedefault --default=1 --once' | grub --batch

set up netconsole so that you can see the kernel messages (optional) on oops.

finding out about all these was incredibly hard and obtuse :-)  So
hope this helps.