[techtalk] what to do with panic output

[Jeff Dike]

Have you read Documentation/oops-tracing.txt in your kernel tree?  If not, 
that would be a good place to start.

> Do i need to run the ksymoops from the same computer which barfed? 

It needs access to your System.map, which ought to be in /boot.

> from what i've been able to tell, the output from ksymoops is also
> numeric.. and how do i translate that ?  is there a table that i
> should use for reference? 

And if it sees your System.map, then you should get symbols.

And then post it to the kernel list...

				Jeff