[CentOS] Kernel Panic Help

Matthew Kent matt at bravenet.com
Fri Apr 9 18:39:51 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 10:10 -0500, Matt wrote:
> I have a CentOS 5.4 64 bit server running on a supermicro motherboard.
>  It kernel paniced last night.
> 
> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?c51cb1be89.jpg
> 
> Any ideas?  Its running the latest version of Squid available with
> yum.  Memory issue?
> 
> Would adding:
> 
> kernel.panic = 10
> 
> to:
> 
> /etc/sysctl.conf
> 
> Have caused it to reboot after 10 seconds instead of just sitting there?

That's the theory! but yeah you shouldn't be getting panics from
something as routine as squid. I'd take a good look
through /var/log/messages and fire up memtest.

Good luck!

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Matthew Kent \ SA \ bravenet.com




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