Kernel Panic?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 09:32 -0800, Michael W. Carney wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 16:06 -0800, RoboticGolem wrote:
>>
>>>Ok.  So when the system locks up and the Scroll Lock and Caps Lock are
>>>flashing, that means a kernel panic right?  How to I track down whats
>>>causing this?  Any ideas?  It only does it in X and I dont know the
>>>first thing about debugging software.
>>>
>>>_Matt
>>
>>I'm seeing precisely the same problem. It started with FC3 (didn't have
>>this problem with FC{1,2}).
> 
> I have the same problem, but only with kernels kernel-2.6.9-1.678_FC3
> and kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3, NOT with kernel-2.6.9-1.667. After a few
> hours, the system would lock up, and the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock leds
> blink. I have all three kernels installed, but currently only running
> the 667 one.

The blinking lights is indicative of a kernel panic.  There used to be 
some code in the 2.4 kernel with a comment to the effect of "perhaps we 
should blink the panic info via morse code".  I don't know about the 2.6 
kernel.  When I was getting them (2.4 kernel, bad driver somewhere if I 
recall right), there was no nice information in the system logs, and 
there was no automatic reboot for the system to recover.  If I didn't 
notice "das blinkin' lights" it just sat there like that.  It doesn't 
look like anything has changed in 2.6?

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