[mdlug] hanging machine kernel panic - on going

[Jonathan Billings]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:08:20PM +0000, Wojtak, Greg (Superfly) wrote:
>
> If you're feeling really ambitious you could make sure that the kdump
> system is configured, grab the kernel dump, and run gdb on it...

The 'crash' utility (http://people.redhat.com/anderson/) actually
makes analyzing kernel kdumps a bit easier, and it uses gdb for parts
of it, but you can also get a lot of kernel-specific information as
well.  I know I've used it to find out what users were logged on to a
multi-user system that kept crashing, for example.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>