As of late I have had some issues with my Hybrid core. It was locking up quite a bit then I reinstalled and it worked fine for about a month and a half then I came home last Friday to find that X would not load and I was getting errors in the start up process that stated that my system could not write to my swap partitions. I suspect that my hard drive failed and I replaced it and reinstalled. But now I have been getting random lockups daily like I used to before I removed a problematic MD. Just wondering in general how many people have constant problems with their core or hybrid/core.
can we please not use generic terms like "lockup", "hang" and "crash"?
If somebody has a real kernel panic/oops/bug, I'd love to see a core dump.
I'm still waiting to see an unstable core without bad hardware/assembly.
best regards,
Hari
I would be more then happy to send you my core dump if I run into anymore problems. What is the file location?
you have to use kdump.
best regards,
Hari
ps: the kexec-tools package may be your friend
Hari - I'd be happy to send mine too. It only happens occasionally, but doesn't seem to have any pattern behind when. Probably once every 2 weeks? And it does hard lock, can't do anything, and it stops routing traffic from the internal to external networks - LEDs on the keyboard flashing.... It happened only 2 days ago, so let me know which files you want and I will send them over...
Col
EDIT - just saw your reply, looking into it right now!
hmmm.. installed, kdump doesn't have a proper man page, and each time I try to execute it, it just says it can't find the start of the coredump. I can see lots of process specific files in both /usr/pluto/coredump and /home/coredump/1 should I be pointing it to those?
Quote from: colinjones on September 17, 2008, 12:57:00 AM
hmmm.. installed, kdump doesn't have a proper man page, and each time I try to execute it, it just says it can't find the start of the coredump. I can see lots of process specific files in both /usr/pluto/coredump and /home/coredump/1 should I be pointing it to those?
you are messing kernel dumps with process dumps. Maybe some background reading would be helpful.
br hari
Quoteyou are messing kernel dumps with process dumps. Maybe some background reading would be helpful.
Perhaps I'm dumb.... Which is likely.. But could you be maybe a little more clear as to what you mean by reading? It might help if you send us in the right direction, maybe give us a few pointers? Not all of us are experts when it comes to Linux. As I have had a great deal of experience being a user of ubuntu I have very little troubleshooting experience and I am afraid I really only know enough to be dangerous.