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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: "PSI, Mike Smith" <mlsmith@mitre.org>
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Subject: Re: Tracking down system freeze
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:14:51PM -0500, PSI, Mike Smith wrote:
> Does anyone have ANY suggestions on how to determine where the
> kernel/program is when the system freezes??? Even hardware solutions,
> such as the infamous paperclip across two pins will do.

Serial console and serial break-to-the-debugger work fairly well
for this sort of thing.

	David.

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