-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2008-11-28 at 07:56 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
There is a Yast module to set it up and it's supposed to trigger on an oops.
I saw http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Modules/Kdump where it says: ] Proposal of new YaST module for configuration kdump so I understood that the module didn't exist yet. Somebody forgot to update the wiki, then.
There is also an alt/sysrq/c keyboard short cut to activate it.
which will not work, system freezes. But I'll try. I'll have to write this on paper :-}
What I would do first with a problem such as your's is downgrade to a previous kernel,
I'm not sure it will work, though. I think there was a previous freeze a month ago, but i dismissed it as chance. It doesn't freeze inmedetially, anyway. It run for an hour or so.
reboot, save boot.msg and confirm that it is a kernel bug. I tried to get a crash dump with an oops I was getting when starting suspend but the problem went away when kdump was activated so I haven't actually seen it in action but it's simple to install and setup with yast.
I'll have to try... provided it doesn't crash while I run yast.
Just out of interest, what is the last line in /var/log/messages at the time your system freezes?
Nothing important. Let me see... Nov 23 18:56:14 minas-morgul smartd[3727]: Device: /dev/hdd, SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 33 to 36 Nov 23 18:56:14 minas-morgul smartd[3727]: Device: /dev/hdd, SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 58 to 59 Nov 23 19:22:27 minas-morgul su: (to root) cer on /dev/pts/3 Nov 23 19:22:55 minas-morgul kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Nov 23 19:22:55 minas-morgul kernel: EXT3 FS on hdd6, internal journal Nov 23 19:22:55 minas-morgul kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. here I had mounted the "stable" root partition Nov 23 19:22:57 minas-morgul kernel: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, dmapi support, no debug enabled Nov 23 19:22:57 minas-morgul kernel: SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem Nov 23 19:22:57 minas-morgul kernel: XFS mounting filesystem hda11 Nov 23 19:22:57 minas-morgul kernel: Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hda11 and here the stable (ie, main) home partition, to read somethings there. Nov 23 19:25:40 minas-morgul syslog-ng[2139]: Log statistics; dropped='pipe(/dev/xconsole)=0', dropped='pipe(/dev/tty10)=0', processed='center(queued)=233', processed='center(received)=189', processed='destination(newsnotice)=0', processed='destination(acpid)=3', processed='destination(firewall)=15', processed='destination(null)=3', processed='destination(mail)=2', processed='destination(mailinfo)=2', processed='destination(console)=11', processed='destination(newserr)=0', processed='destination(newscrit)=0', processed='destination(messages)=166', processed='destination(mailwarn)=0', processed='destination(localmessages)=0', processed='destination(netmgm)=0', processed='destination(mailerr)=0', processed='destination(xconsole)=11', processed='destination(warn)=20', processed='source(src)=189' Nov 23 19:26:15 minas-morgul smartd[3727]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 107 to 104 Nov 23 19:26:15 minas-morgul smartd[3727]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 62 to 55 Nov 23 19:26:15 minas-morgul smartd[3727]: Device: /dev/hdb, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 57 to 59 Nov 23 19:26:15 minas-morgul smartd[3727]: Device: /dev/hdb, SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 27 to 28 Nov 23 19:26:15 minas-morgul smartd[3727]: Device: /dev/hdd, SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 36 to 35 But the firewall log contains much later entries at Nov 23 19:51:34, so nothing above is related to the freeze. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkv4twACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WGXACfbLyfxncKCE6tlqg8cy2FiCg8 TQMAnjs02W0M2sYIpYCTyXaiDAocpWsg =iXpz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org