From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: Netdump times out immediately and fails around twice every 3 times. -Environment Server: Red Hat Linux 9 (kernel-2.4.20-20.9). Client: Red Hat Linux 9 (kernel-2.4.20-20.9). -Investigated information We think this occurs when cpu-counter wraps around and (t1 - t0) becomes minus at the following steps of timeout-judgement. At this time, it actually has not timed out. drivers/net/netconsole.c line 171 ---------------------------------------------------------- if (t0) { ãif (((t1 - t0) >> 20) > mhz_cycles * (unsigned long long) idle_timeout) { ---------------------------------------------------------- We are waiting for your investigation and measures. I'm sorry for my poor English. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-20.9 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Make panic on Red Hat Linux 9. 2. 3. Actual Results: System reboots without making crashdump-file. Expected Results: System leaves crashdump-file on panic for investigation. Additional info:
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