Re: Kernel Panic: How to tell what happened?
Mariano Kamp said:
> 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?
>
maybe some sort of kernel dump ? not sure, but for serial console
its pretty easy, check out this HOWTO:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/
just be sure to have something connected to it at the time of the panic
to get the data.
nate
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