19 Jan
2011
19 Jan
'11
1:20 p.m.
Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU> writes:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:53:41PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote:
When the boxes freezes, I cannot ssh into the box. I cannot switch to a text console. It is totally stuck, and the caps lock and scroll lock leds are blinking on the keyboard.
Blinking caps lock & sroll lock means there is a kernel panic. Can you set up a serial console or netconsole in advance to capture the panic messages to another system when it crashes?
http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/kernel-lockup.htm
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/4753/netconsole-howto-send-kernel-boo...
Or setup kdump to capture a vmcore. Cheers, Jeff