Alternatives to serial console for capturing oopses

Jeff Moyer jmoyer at redhat.com
Mon Dec 15 17:53:03 UTC 2008


Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> writes:

> I've got a quad-core dual x86_64 server that, so far, reproducably
> locks up under every 2.6.27 kernel released for F9 so far, when I run
> a build cycle. The last kernel that manages to survive under load is
> 2.6.26.6-79.fc9, so I'll continue to boot it until I get a 2.6.27
> kernel that doesn't croak on me.
>
> Given that the hardware does not have a serial port, how else can I
> capture an oops, if one is being generated? At least I hope that
> there'll be an oops for me to capture.

Try netconsole:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Netconsole




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