On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:30, Ammon J Christiansen wrote: > My kernel still panics regularly without fail every day or two and hangs > the system. I don't lose any data but it sure is annoying and I want > the system to be stable if I use it as a web server. Installing red hat > 9 didn't seem to solve it and I am led to believe that it is a hardware > issue. I just don't know what would be a logical first guess of what > could be going wrong. I doubt the fact that I have a new monitor > affects it. The RAM or the hd or the video card or something could be > messed up, but I don't know how I would be able to tell.
Is there anything in /var/log/messages? Often kernel panics get written there when they happen. I would also turn on sysrq: echo '1' > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq Or edit /etc/sysctl.conf and make sure there is a line that reads: kernel.sysrq = 1 That will set the parameter at boot. Then when the panic occurs, you can use alt-printscreen-s to sync the disks, alt-printscreen-r (I think) to remount the drives read-only and then alt-printscreen-b to reboot. If you know more than I do about it, you can use the alt-printscreen combinations to dump process lists and get more information about what was happening. Michael > Any ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
