On 09-12-07 15:51:38, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: ... > I just went to reboot it. Since I wasn't logged into the console, I > used the GDM reboot button to reboot the system. While it was > shutting down, it just hung. That's when I noticed the caps-lock and > scroll-lock leds flashing in unison. Oh, cool, I thought, a kernel > panic! > > When it rebooted, it booted the new kernel: > kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 > > (I had been running kernel-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686 when it paniced). > > The machine booted OK for me. My surprise was when I went to look in > /var/log/messages, there was no mention of a kernel panic! > The last message was of smartd terminating. Followed by the reboot > of the new kernel. > > So, what happened? Did my system panic? If so, why no message in > /var/log/messages?
If the panic was about the disk system then nothing will be written to the logs. Your only chance to see it is in a system console, before rebooting, and that's hard to do after the panic. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:[email protected]> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
