Fatal kernel trap - "data storage interrupt" - on recent 7-STABLE

[Nathan Whitehorn]

Nick Withers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sadly, I'm still seeing this panic on the G4 system, updated 7-STABLE...
>
> Should I report this to the stable mailing list (I imagine I'll get told
> it's a PPC thing, but I don't really know!)? Is there any way I can get
> my Apple USB keyboard to work when dropped to GDB? Kernel dumps don't
> yet work on PowerPC, right?
>
> Am I perhaps the only one running 7-STABLE on a G4 using gmirror?
>   
Have you tried using dcons over firewire? That should at least let you 
use the kernel debugger to get a backtrace, as well as dump physical 
memory to another machine if that is necessary.
-Nathan