Re: Kernel Panic: How to tell what happened?

[Mariano Kamp <mkamp@gmx.de>]

Hi Nate,
  
  thanks for caring. It's a laptop. How can I attach a serial console?
Get a null-modem cable, find some program (minicom) reading from the
serial port (/dev/ttySomething?) and how would I tell my laptop to
output to the serial cable?

  The onyl thing I can see in the logfiles
/var/log/ksymoops/20020913xxx.ksyms is skb_over_panic and
skb_under_panic. What is an skb? Any idea?

Mariano

On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 21:26, nate wrote:
> Mariano Kamp said:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  my new kernel produces kernel panics. Beeing a newbie I am a bit stuck
> > here. It is happening very quickly, so I guessed that it has something to
> > do with not able to mount a filesystem and was randomly selecting and
> > deselecting ide options with not much succes.
> 
> 
> I don't know of any way to retrieve the data from the current panic,
> but in the future I reccomend setting up console on serial port
> and hook a terminal up to the system, then if the panic happens again
> it should be preserved in the terminal's buffer.
> 
> sometimes a panic can be logged to syslog too, many times it does not
> though...
> 
> nate
> 
> 
> 
> 
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