Hi all, On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:22:39 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:59:56PM +0200, guy keren wrote: > > > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Kobi Cohen-Arazi wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I got "kernel bug" message while shutdown. There was a data dumped. > > > However, I didn't know how to preserve that dump. Is it flushed to > > > some file,so users can retrieve it later for reporting bugs, > > > debugging the kernel etc ? > > > > on some systems and situations, the kernel panic gets logged in > > /var/log/messages - check it there. it could be that turning this on > > requires some tweaking of /etc/syslog.conf - perhaps one of the mulis on > > this list remmembers if this is necessary ;) > > Since you invoked my name... Ahh ... So we'll always do that.
> > You need a kernel.* stanza in /etc/syslog.conf. Output is customarily > sent to /var/log/messages or /var/log/kernel. OK. I'll check it. > > To the original poster: which distribution, and which kernel? I think > some distributions have begun using kernel crash dumping tools, which > may leave more than just trace messages to be analyzed. 2.6.3-19mdk (mdk 10 official) > > Also, was it an oops, or a panic (did the kernel continue running or > freeze?)? Freeze. The shuutdown didn't continued, and Halt command via SysRq didn't do the trick (of shutting down ...) > since it was in inode.c, and during shutdown, there's a less > than optimal chance of it making it to disk. I guess u r right. Thanks, Kobi > > Cheers, > Muli > -- > Muli Ben-Yehuda > http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
