[Techtalk] kernel panic

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Op donderdag 23-10-2008 om 09:24 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Maria
McKinley:
> Hello there,
> 
> I had a mail server have a kernel panic this morning, and I am trying to 
> find out what happened, but it seems totally mysterious. The last entry 
> in the log is a standard postfix disconnect. All systems seemed fine 
> right before the panic:
> 
> http://www.shadlen.org/munin/Servers/ella.shadlen.org.html
> 
> None of the partitions or drives are remotely close to being full. There 
> may have been a network outage around the time of the panic, but this 
> should not have caused a kernel panic. This machines runs a mail server, 
> web server, and bind9. It booted back up just fine, and seems to be 
> working happily now.
> 
> Is there something I should be logging that I am not, or something else 
> that may give me a clue as to why this happened?

Hi Maria,

I am impressed by all that you log.

I fear though, that this is a case where the information on the console
is of crucial import. 

If you start getting this more often, and you are running with X
enabled, then i would suggest to enable either network console logging
or serial console. In both cases you can capture the kernel panic dump.
It is the dump on the console that contains the information to trace
which aspect caused the panic. Without this, all you can do is guess.

Cheers,


Rudy

(who has had some kernel panics.. )

> 
> thanks,
> maria
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