stresstest + safest crashlog?

2012-05-13 Thread Petah
I've had a bunch of crashes freezing one PC to such an extent I couldn't recover any log, switch tty, ssh from outside and the machine has no serial port. What's the surest way to get a crashlog? syslog to a 2nd PC, a USB key with log-cow, buy a PCI serial port card? Is there a stress script

Re: stresstest + safest crashlog?

2012-05-13 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 05:47:55PM +0200, Petah wrote: I've had a bunch of crashes freezing one PC to such an extent I couldn't recover any log, switch tty, ssh from outside and the machine has no serial port. What's the surest way to get a crashlog? syslog to a 2nd PC, a USB key with

Re: stresstest + safest crashlog?

2012-05-13 Thread Peter Laufenberg
On May 13 17:47:55, Petah wrote: I've had a bunch of crashes freezing one PC to such an extent I couldn't recover any log, You mean, after a reboot? Ctrl-alt-del won't reboot (pc has no X), I have to keep powerbutton down 5 secs. There's one post-reboot log entry unrelated to the panic