From: Erik Hahn <erik_hahn@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:16:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081012091635.GA16359@eriks> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810121108.57840.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at>
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no
> possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?).
>
> How do I find out what happened, why it crashed? Modern systems have
> MCE-logs, but how do I read it in this case? After reboot, all information
> seems to be gone since mcelog is always empty.
> Alex
If it's a kernel panic you actually get debugging information on the
console. It's just hidden "behind" the X server. Maybe you can reproduce
the problem working without X (If you can do your work purely from the
VTs)
Do you use any proprietary drivers?
-Erik
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-12 9:08 [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened? Alexander Puchmayr
2008-10-12 9:16 ` Erik Hahn [this message]
2008-10-12 11:12 ` Alexander Puchmayr
2008-10-12 11:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-12 13:00 ` Alexander Puchmayr
2008-10-13 15:09 ` Duane Griffin
2008-10-13 23:30 ` Daniel da Veiga
2008-10-14 16:31 ` Alexander Puchmayr
2008-10-14 17:09 ` Alex Schuster
2008-10-19 9:58 ` Alexander Puchmayr
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