On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no
> possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?).
>
> How do I find out what happened, why it crashed? Modern systems have
> MCE-logs, but how do I read it in this case? After reboot, all information
> seems to be gone since mcelog is always empty.
> Alex
If it's a kernel panic you actually get debugging information on the
console. It's just hidden "behind" the X server. Maybe you can reproduce
the problem working without X (If you can do your work purely from the
VTs)
Do you use any proprietary drivers?
-Erik
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