Fawad, > > When the kernel crashes, kernel prints out the log explaining the error. > > I have a problem taking those messages when the kernel crashes. > > When we reboot the system, I do find it in the "/var/log/messages"? > > Where can I find those? > > After you won't able to find any log messeges ! Try to test this on > kernel compiled with kdb so that when you got crash it will go into > kdb and will give you prompt to take a look at the log messages ! > (Actually I can't test it currently on uni-processor kernel with > preemption enabled and kdb as I don't have machine ready for this now > :( ) I do not have a similar kind of setup but I will try to build one now. > > > > I have tried it on Uni-processor machine. > > > > Means you can only get preemption (enabling SMP is of no use for you). > Are you testing from the terminal without running X ? or getting this > problem with X running ? Yes, you are right. I am testing it by shifting between F1, F2, ... terminals. Regards, Mukund Jampala -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/