Dharmosoth Seetharam <dseetharam at inbox.com> writes: > Hi Neil, > > Thanks for your quick reply. > > What you have suggested is nice when we got/save crash dump (i.e vmcore) > What if we failed to save/capture vmcore info or vmcore is corrupted etc. then we dont get any information > regarding the panic/crash/oops at anywhere? Basic questions. 1) Do you have panic on oops set? I think that setting more than anything else will be the difference in what shows up in /var/log/messages. 2) Have you tried a dry run and confirmed you can get a crash dump? 3) Are you using kvm Eric > Thanks and Regards > > Seetharam > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: nhorman at redhat.com >> Sent: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:05:13 -0400 >> To: dseetharam at inbox.com >> Subject: Re: /var/log/messages doesn't have crash info when kernel gets >> panic/oops/crash >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 01:25:49AM -0800, Dharmosoth Seetharam wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have encounter a problem called /var/log/messages does not contain any >>> information >>> on kernel crash dump. >>> >>> Prior to enabling KEXEC we saw stack traces and bug info etc in >>> /var/log/messages. >>> After enabling KEXEC feature those info was missed. >>> >>> How can we get those missed info in /var/log/messages even when KEXEC >>> feature is enabled. >>> >>> Any help will appreciate. >>> >> run crash on the resultant vmcore file that kexec can produce/save and >> get the >> dmesg log out of it. >> alternatively you can use makedumpfile with the --dump-dmesg log >> >> Neil >> >>> >>> Thanks and Regards >>> Seetharam >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> Receive Notifications of Incoming Messages >>> Easily monitor multiple email accounts & access them with a click. >>> Visit http://www.inbox.com/notifier and check it out! >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> kexec mailing list >>> kexec at lists.infradead.org >>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec > > ____________________________________________________________ > GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys > Works with AIM?, MSN? Messenger, Yahoo!? Messenger, ICQ?, Google Talk? and most webmails
