On 12/6/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> A noticeable symptom is blinking CapsLock and ScrollLock keybord leds > (but not NumLock). > Does anybody observe anything similar? I believe those LEDs blink when the kernel panics. If you are not running X at the time you should see the panic on the screen, otherwise it can be tricky to get unless you have a serial console or some other way to dump the console messages when the system dies.
I'd like to learn a reason for this kernel panic but I'm using X and cannot afford waiting in the text console for hours in hope to get this kernel panic. Moreover, it may be crucial for kernel panic to have X running. Why kernel in the case of panic cannot simply switch the screen to the text mode and print out a message there? Max