[GRLUG] Kernel panic?

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't have time to check it out besides rebooting to make sure it
>  still can(it can), but my Kubuntu 8.04 desktop froze and the numlock
>  and scrolllock kept flashing.  This happened a lot in my Kubuntu KDE4
>  partition.  I just thought it was KDE 4, but this just happened in
>  Kubuntu KDE3 which is my main OS and has got me worried.
>
>  Doing a quick google search I think this might be kernel panic.  Is
>  there anyway to find out what happened?  Does linux log this stuff
>  somewhere before going down?

The kernel can log Oopses, but panics are a lot harder.

Your best bet is try booting without X running. (i.e. in single user
mode.).  Then, at least, you'll see what the error is.

It's also to get such errors logged to a printer, but I don't know if
Ubuntu has that support compiled into the kernel.

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