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

[Nick Withers]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 16:09 -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> 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.

I haven't, but I'll get onto it. This'll be the first time I've ever
used firewire, too, how exciting :-)

Cheers Nathan!

> -Nathan
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