Hi Alex, 2010/1/5 Alexander Birchall <[email protected]>: > Neil suggested that in order to track down the cause of this problem, I > should look in the log files, in particular dmesg or messages or syslog. I <snip>
If the problem is disk or controller related you might find that the error messages do not appear in any log files as the system no longer has access to the disks at the time of the failure. In these cases it's useful to enable remote syslogging. This simply sends all specified log entries to a remote host so that even if the local disk fails, we should still have some messages written on the remote logging host. Directions for setting up a remote syslog host on Ubuntu can be found here: http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-remote-syslog-logging-debian-and-ubuntu Having said all that, I think it's worth us having a look at the logs you have first, assuming you're reasonably confident they contain no sensitive information. Thanks, Paul. -- Paul Elliott (omahn) [email protected] -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
