From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QfDnQ-0001uS-AV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:20:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 821DF21C08D for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:20:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD8A21C1BA for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so1149133gyg.40 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:13:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uRjaU91XndHXLGuJ+KD4YeTsikJXa7OF37cC6+Et5j0=; b=R+pqH2gdrlkE3AvOjQ5UfktOfFugK1IQKKHVlMXaJX/+crlAKNFUy3cSkz84esdgJN +D7f39jVmQSKVBmam3dijyepoq18Y0Y8nBsOBzlrK+MXqF/kx7pWatDIUYLOqFLfn+QM eMNeEsPCkCkk2wUeOogyX8FCvBPKibs9oFWOk= Received: by 10.150.60.11 with SMTP id i11mr2086275yba.161.1310141599245; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-147-233.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.147.233]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s4sm750143ybm.4.2011.07.08.09.13.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E172C9C.8020007@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:13:16 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110708 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and HARD lock ups. References: <4E11EEF3.70804@gmail.com> <4E1376E9.6010103@gmail.com> <3397476.pHKnnJ9RgL@localhost> <4E13E195.3040203@gmail.com> <4E13EEBF.3070501@gmail.com> <4E13F4D1.9050907@gmail.com> <4E168B0E.2070100@gmail.com> <20110708084652.5bc8b5b3@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4E16CBB2.3030102@gmail.com> <20110708121639.3e264524@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110708121639.3e264524@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f910ce3e7d530c1a4c5f1318ba083231 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 :-) :-)