Re: Debugging a system freeze?

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On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 02:10:35PM +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Jeff Gipson <jeffagipson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 01:44:47PM +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:

Problem has been solved for the record - followed a recommendation and
notched vcore up to 1.280, misread one of the original graphs.

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To address your (now moot) request, the Kernel ring buffer is probably the
first place I would go, if I suspected a hardware or hardware driver issue.
You can see the current contents of the ring buffer by running the 'dmesg'
command, or you can see more history is /var/log/messages for general logs.

I should note from experience, that often when there's an obsure or
intermittant hardware problem sometimes the problem manifests itself
different ways each time, or side effects of the problem can misinform the
troubleshooting process. In an environment where you have >1 identical
pieces of hardware with the same (Exact Same) Kernel version, Kernel
modules, and drivers, If one system had this problem and the other didn't,
then I would suspect either the h/w or environment first. If I could
reproduce the problem on both systems, then I would suspect s/w, but not
rule out the possibility of environment or h/w design flaw.

HTH
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Thanks for the replies Heinz and Jeff (though the issue is not entirely
moot just yet Jeff, presumptuous wording on my part), I will run those
through the next time it happens.

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Christopher Svanefalk

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And this is a huge PITA, but if your system becomes to unusable to use dmesg, *and* you have a another computer (preferably laptop) then you can either use a null-modem cable (with a terminal emulator on the laptop, such as 'screen' or 'minicom') or a network cable (with syslogd on the laptop configure to accept logs from your ailing system over the network). What you would be going for, is sending all the kernel logs to the serial port (if using a null-modem) or remote laptop (if using syslog/networking). That way if your system crashes hard, hopefully enough logs will have escaped to the connected system to provide some hints.

Unfortunately, I cannot give the specifics on how to configure this either way... I could tell you if it were an RHEL5 system, but so much of the logging has changed on recent Fedoras and I haven't had time to examine how it is working.

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