Hi, Am 11.02.2010 12:08, schrieb Dave Plater:
Hi, I occasionally get a kernel panic, at least I assume it is because everything freezes except for blinking keyboard lights, when compiling with multiple jobs using scons but I can't find anything in the log to indicate where it happened. I'm already running kdump but it doesn't trigger. I think I can reproduce the panic with a particular resource hungry compile so what can I do to debug this problem?
Have you considered to setup kdump? With openSUSE, that's really easy: Just fire up YaST and choose the kdump module. You may have to install the "yast2-kdump" package before. After the setup is complete, reboot. If the crash happens, a dump file is written to the disk. You might not see any output on the console, just watch the disk activity (or setup a serial console). After that, a dump is in /var/crash. That dump can be opened with crash(1). See http://en.opensuse.org/Kdump and http://en.opensuse.org/Crashdump_Debugging. HTH, Bernhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org