[BlueOnyx:02167] Re: Kernel Panic - Boooom!

[Jeff Jones]

You know - It's difficult for me to tell on email if your tone here is  
'sarcastic/funny' or 'sarcastic/patronizing' - sometimes punctuation /  
smileys can prevent you from being misunderstood. Just a friendly  
observation - it's not always obvious. This episode has really  
stressed me out so perhaps I'm not really in the mood for sarcasm -  
just help.

Anyway I always like to think the best of people (especially on this  
list) so I'll assume it's 'sarcastic/funny'.

Back to my issue - I had actually done that - but there was only a  
kernel log of after the even (when I rebooted) nothing else at all -  
yes I have been though all the other messages.1 etc files also. Nada.

If BX crashes like that - is it common that it's such a fatal crash  
that it's not logged?

If so - I guess I'm never going to be able to find the cause of this -  
I wish I'd done a screen grab of the dump screen now.

Is there any way of preparing / running something on this server so  
that if it happens again I might catch a bit more pre-crash data? Can  
you up the level of Kernel logging somehow?

This box is on Linux version 2.6.18-92.1.22.el - is that pretty stable  
in terms of BX/Centos Kernels?

Cheers,

Jeff


On 21 Aug 2009, at 11:22, Steve Howes wrote:

>
> On 21 Aug 2009, at 11:17, Jeff Jones wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> Well I have looked in /var/log and there is no kernel or sys log to  
>> be
>> found. I really need these files to troubleshoot this issue.
>>
>> Are you telling me that Centos does not dump a kernel log?
>>
>> Jeff
>
> [root at onyx ~]# grep kernel /var/log/messages | head
> Jul 14 13:10:03 onyx kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:ff:30:75:00:1e:
> 0b:84:8f:c7:08:00 SRC=94.76.245.26 DST=195.110.160.70 LEN=46 TOS=0x00
> PREC=0x00 TTL=124 ID=28152 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1039 DPT=110 WINDOW=65481
> RES=0x00 ACK PSH URGP=0
>
> Oh look, messages from the kernel in a log I suggested.
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