On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 15:34, Russell Hires wrote: > Okay, accepting for the moment that when the kernel dies, I can't read the > console to find out what went wrong, what else can I do to figure out what's > wrong? Which kernel or other system logs would tell me?
/var/log/kern.log, but as it seems to be a panic (the kernel would keep running after an oops), there probably won't be anything there. You'd have to use a serial console or something. > I do know that for some reason, heavy disk activity kills the kernel. I run > anacron, and I know that after a few days of not being on, my computer runs a > bunch of tasks in the background. I think that it's the "locate" database > update that could be the culprit. But then, how would I know for sure? You can be sure that it's not any userspace program's fault. :) The kernel dying is either a kernel bug or a hardware fault. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
