On 2012-03-04 09:16 +0100, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 4 March 2012 01:28, Brendon Higgins <blhigg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Any more ideas? As I said, I tried getting kdump working but have been having >> trouble getting it to behave. > > One more thought, but it's a bit of a long shot as to whether you have > the equipment. The most watertight way I know of to capture kernel > output is a serial port and another computer. If, by any chance, you > have one on your machine, edit /etc/defaults/grub to include > console=ttyS0,155200n1 (or whatever speed you like) on the kernel boot > line. You'll also need another machine with either a serial port or a > USB-serial adapter, making it half as likely that this will help you > :P > > Of course, most computers these days (*ahem*) don't have serial ports. > *Maybe* a USB-serial adapter will work for the target machine too... > although this requires an extra level of redirection on the part of > the kernel, and may not be as foolproof, so I wouldn't spend the money > if you don't already have one (or, in fact, two). > > Other than that, I'm out of ideas. Hopefully someone else on this list > has an idea that doesn't require technology that was rendered obsolete > for most people by 1995...
Either log in via ssh if that is still possible, or use netconsole to capture kernel messages. Sven http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt http://blog.mraw.org/2010/11/08/Debugging_using_netconsole/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87eht84p3v....@turtle.gmx.de