[SWLUG] kernel "screen of death"

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 5 11:28:14 UTC 2011


On 5 December 2011 11:18, Steve Hill <steve at nexusuk.org> wrote:
> On 05/12/11 11:00, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> Run the Log File Viewer where you will find, in particular, syslog.
>> You should find the previous records in there.
>
> Usually not - if the kernel panics, syslog will usually not have written
> the log to disk.  Best method is to tell the kernel to output to a
> serial console and connect another machine to capture the log of it
> going foom.

You could be right, I did not notice the subject line, just the
contents of the post.  It is always worth looking in the logs first
though to see what is there.

Colin




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