fedora 6 kernel panic issues

[Tony Nelson]

At 4:06 PM +0100 8/7/07, Alan Cox wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:29:41 -0700
>"Jason Taylor" <jtaylor at uipacific.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> That was all I saw at the console besides the transaction #'s.
>>
>> I was unable to open any virtual terminals or escape it at all.  I will
>>try and see if there is any more data at the end.
>>
>> I am still pretty Linux green.  Is there something else that I can
>>provide that would help?
>> I ran through /var/log/messages and saw nothing.
>
>Before it choked it will have dumped a set of messages indicating ATA
>error information to the system. That may have scrolled off before it
>died, and if the disk failed then it couldn't write it to the log either.
>
>Drives keep their own failure information log usually (partly because of
>this) and there are low level tools to access the information:
>
>open a terminal window
>
>do
>
>su -
>[root password]
>smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda
>
>and it will dump the data for the first disk.
>
>That will show you various stats including an overall health self
>assessment and also usually the last errors that occurred. Those are the
>important and useful bit.

Let me add that the word "fail" will always appear in the TYPE column in
the report.  Look at the "WHEN FAILED" column; if that is clear then the
disk hasn't failed yet.  See `man smartctl` about this and /don't panic/.
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