On Wednesday 13 July 2005 18:19, Clive at Rational wrote: > After a lot of pain and wasted days on Fedora 3 2.6.10 > / 2.6.11 and 5 (!) failures (machine hangs during > install) trying to install Fedora 4 - I have fallen > back to Fedora 2 2.6.5 (!!!!). > > This is a lot more stable than any of the other > kernels / distributions. However, from time to time, > the machine's "console" (I don't sign on to it I > access it using VNC4 and telnet) fills up with rapidly > flowing messages. The format seems to be (x"nnnnnnn" > text) and in a cycle of four different messages. > "Kernel panic" is a string that appears often in these > fast produced messages. There is no one obvious event > that causes this problem > > All I want is a stable , simple, Samba file store - > and I seem to spend my time rebooting. This is > frustrating and demoralising. > > Can someone tell me in which log file I find the > sequence of messages that spew out on the console - so > I can at least post the error? I have searched > directory var/log for the string "kernel panic" - and > there is nothing. > > Thanks > > Clive > Hello, can it be that you had a wrong capitalization in your search ? What is the result of a 'grep -i -R "kernel panic" /var/log/*' ? Also try some other sequence you have seen instead of "kernel panic". They must be somewhere in /var/log ;-) You also have to be root to view these files. __________________________ Benjamin Duehring, FORWISS| Universitaet Passau | Priv. e-mail : duehring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx D-94030 Passau | WWW : http://www.lyxx.de/card
