On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:48 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > On 30 July 2010 14:31, Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> I talked to the plymouth maintainer and he said this is a known bug; I > >> don't know if the fix is in F13 yet but let me explain what's going on: > >> > >> You've got two bugs. One is a kernel panic. The other is that when the > >> kernel is panicking, rather than showing useful debug information, it is > > > > Good to know, thanks. It's just good to know there is a confirmed bug, > > so I'm confident it is being worked on, and a fix will be available in > > the near future. > > > > >From what I understood from Máirín's response, the bug in plymouth is > worked upon. But there is no way to tell the reason for the kernel > panic. I think you should still try to investigate the reason for > that. I am sorry I don't have any suggestions for you to try. Luckily > I have never faced a kernel panic myself. :( You're right, Suyayu - the bug that's being worked on is the plymouth bug (well actually, I think it's a kernel bug, but it displays plymouth so plymouth is the visible part.) But that won't fix the core problem - the kernel panic - because we don't yet know what's causing Alex's system to panic in the first place. I think kernel panics are usually because of hardware issues, device driver issues, or a genuine kernel bug (but I think the latter is by far more rare.) Do you have any hardware that might be suspect, Alex? Maybe a RAM module you recently swapped into the machine? One tool that might be useful is called kdump. It's part of Fedora and it loads a second uncrashed kernel to capture data from the crashed kernel to help figure out what's going on. There's some instructions on how to use kdump in the Fedora wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel/kdump I would imagine if the output of running kdump after triggering a crash doesn't indicate the problem in an obvious way (e.g., might be obvious-ish if there was mention of the brand name of a piece of hw you're aware of in the output), I think the output would certainly make for a good bug report. Hope this helps, ~m -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
