Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:19:46 -0500, Dale wrote:
That's a kernel panic. You can have the system reboot itself after a
panic by adding kernel.panic=N to /etc/sysctl.conf, where N is the
number of seconds to wait before rebooting.
Kewl !!! I just saw that in the file but it is commented out. Like
this:
# When the kernel panics, automatically reboot in 3 seconds
#kernel.panic = 3
So, I uncomment this and the system will reboot in 3 seconds? Does it
sync and unmount or just do the same as me hitting the reset button?
The kernel is dead, it's all it can manage to reboot with it's last gasp.
Is there a way to set this without rebooting?
You can set it with sysctl on the command line, or add it to the file and
reload the config with sysctl -p
Thanks. Why wouldn't that be a default I wonder?
Because it causes reboot loops if there's a basic error that causes a
panic when you boot.
You can also give it as a kernel option in GRUB, add "panic=N" to the
kernel options.
Thanks. I'm hoping not to need this feature anytime soon. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
