>On May 13 17:47:55, Petah wrote: >> I've had a bunch of crashes freezing one PC to such an extent I couldn't >> recover any log, > >You mean, after a reboot?
Ctrl-alt-del won't reboot (pc has no X), I have to keep powerbutton down 5 secs. There's one post-reboot log entry unrelated to the panic message I got on screen; the sys drive is an SSD, which may account for the volatility, panic occured while doing a chrooted rsync on the 2nd HDD. Keyboard input seems flaky, tried a bunch. >If you can exit to ddb, the extraction of information (dmesg, panic, >etc) is easy. > >man 8 crash >man 4 ddb >man 8 savecore thx I'll check those, -- p > >> switch tty, ssh from outside and the machine has no serial port. >> >> What's the surest way to get a crashlog? syslog to a 2nd PC, a USB key with >> log-cow, buy a PCI serial port card? >> >> Is there a stress script that can be run on a crashtest dummy PC? >> >> thx, >> >> -- p
