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 1N1Mbd-0003GU-My for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:03:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D54D7E07F1; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA777E07F1 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FA7671E0 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:03:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.185 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.185 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.586, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tfAUrDQZVLQW for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:03:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7709E671DD for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N1MbP-0002yg-98 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:02:55 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-187-231.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.187.231]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:02:55 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-187-231.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:02:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:02:29 -0700 Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-187-231.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091023 Shredder/3.0pre In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ae1de634-9a00-4aa0-9df3-bd5db3f0e5df X-Archives-Hash: 7c9618f10eb26c03016f32d6067ee6eb On 10/22/2009 04:31 PM, walt wrote: > On 10/21/2009 11:25 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> The kernel panicked. The relevant messages are: >> >> <...> >> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, >> Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed >> Warning: unable to open an initial console > ...I don't know if that warning is important. Apparently it is important. I just discovered /var/log/kern.log, which logs things that happen even before / is mounted. Here is the relevant part: Oct 23 08:18:39 k2 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Oct 23 08:18:39 k2 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 8:7. Oct 23 08:18:39 k2 kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed Oct 23 08:18:39 k2 kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Oct 23 08:18:39 k2 kernel: udev: starting version 141 No such warning for me. The question is why not? Any ideas?