Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?

2012-03-04 Thread Jason Heeris
On 4 March 2012 01:28, Brendon Higgins blhigg...@gmail.com wrote: Any more ideas? As I said, I tried getting kdump working but have been having trouble getting it to behave. One more thought, but it's a bit of a long shot as to whether you have the equipment. The most watertight way I know of

Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?

2012-03-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-03-04 09:16 +0100, Jason Heeris wrote: On 4 March 2012 01:28, Brendon Higgins blhigg...@gmail.com wrote: Any more ideas? As I said, I tried getting kdump working but have been having trouble getting it to behave. One more thought, but it's a bit of a long shot as to whether you have

Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?

2012-03-04 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, Jason Heeris wrote (Sun March 4, 2012): The most watertight way I know of to capture kernel output is a serial port and another computer. If, by any chance, you have one on your machine Not really an option (at least, not an easy one), I'm afraid. I only have two machines, and neither of

Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?

2012-03-03 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi again, Charles Krinke wrote (Thu March 1, 2012): On the next boot, /var/log/messages shoild contain the last printk's from the kernel which would include any panic. Thanks. I'd already checked there, though, and no dice. The log just skips from the last innocuous kernel message to messages

Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?

2012-03-01 Thread Charles Krinke
On the next boot, /var/log/messages shoild contain the last printk's from the kernel which would include any panic. So, one should be able to tail /var/log messages and see what the kernel did at the time of the freeze. Remembdr that the fresh boot is appendex to /var/log/messages, so you need

Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?

2012-03-01 Thread Jason Heeris
On 2 March 2012 12:50, Charles Krinke charles.kri...@gmail.com wrote: So, one should be able to tail /var/log messages and see what the kernel did at the time of the freeze. I've had problems with write caching causing the last few messages to be lost after a panic*, so if you don't see