[CentOS] handling kernel panics

Wed Oct 31 16:39:44 UTC 2007
Andy Harrison <aharrison at gmail.com>

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I have a problem with a couple of my centos servers hitting a kernel
panic about once a week or so.

I find them sitting at a panic screen like this:

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1044/screenshotoakpanicma4.jpg (58k)

Two questions:

1) How do I make it reboot after a panic instead of sitting in a hung state?


2) How do I turn on logging so that I can see the entire kernel panic
message?  I tried changing syslog.conf so that kern.* goes to
/var/log/messages instead of just kern.debug, but all that did was
make booting a little more verbose in the log.


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Andy Harrison
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