Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754438Ab2FNIDI (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:03:08 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58314 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754392Ab2FNIDD (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:03:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:02:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Mahmood Naderan Cc: Alan Cox , "\"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org\"" , Cong Wang Subject: Re: logging on kernel panic In-Reply-To: <1339599156.30833.YahooMailNeo@web111716.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <1339589919.53487.YahooMailNeo@web111718.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20120613133927.73c44f09@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <1339599156.30833.YahooMailNeo@web111716.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 22 On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > >and you can get the dmesg+panic from there > ?Sorry where? in the bios? Read Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore in the kernel sources. > @Cong: > >The kernel log may not hit /var/log/syslog when kernel panics, > Can I ask why. Just before a panic, kernel is still alive and can log. At the point of panic, the machine is too dead to be able to perform such a complex operation as writing to filesystem. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/