Debugging kernel hangs

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Hi,
> what is the proper way to analyze kernel hangs? I'm getting hit by this 
> almost on a daily basis ever since moving to the 177x kernels and now 
> I'm trying to get down to what the actual problem is. I only have one 
> machine available so a method to get debugging information as a dump in 
> a core file would be preferred but I could get a second machine attached 
> to get that information via the serial console if necessary, I just 
> can't keep the second machine around all the time.

After borrowing a notebook for a day I filed a bug and attached the netdump 
output here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176569

Regards,
   Dennis