On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:54:08 -0600
Ryan Ware <whiterabbit1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:13:54 -0600, Josh Trutwin
> <josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote:
> > I'm having some annoying problems with hardware (purchased from
> > one of the TCLUG classified's incidentally!) and I was hoping
> > maybe someone's had similar issues and can offer some advice.
> > 
> > Anyway, it's a SuSE 8.1 box, PIII 500 I think - I can get detailed
> > specs the next time it's up.  Every now and then it just goes
> > down, no messages in any of the logs.  Sometimes when I'm logged
> > in and working on it, sometimes overnight.  Right now it seems to
> > go down once or twice every 24 hours or so.  Last time it happened
> > in the middle of the night and I left an ssh connection tailing
> > the messages log.  In the morning it was dead, nothing interesting
> > on the log window. Nothing interesting in any of the other logs
> > either.
> 
> That sounds like a kernel panic
> http://resource.intel.com/telecom/support/tnotes/tnbyos/2000/tn062.htm
>  has some general info.

Good link.

"Depending on the nature of the panic, the kernel will log all
information it can prior to locking up.  Since a kernel panic is a
drastic failure, it is uncertain how much information will be logged."

I'm not seeing anything in the logs that would indicate a kernel panic
though.  I've had plenty of these and even the more severe ones
usually manage to dump something into a log somewhere.

Josh

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