I arrived at work this morning to find that my desktop unit (CentOS-6.6 KVM) halted with a kernel panic. I am not conversant with any way to save the console display in this case and there was rather a lot of text. I jotted down a few notes and power-cycled the unit to restart. which it did and I am using now to compose this message. The few notes that I manually copied, subject to transcription errors, were: ? pci-configure - slot 0x365.0x420 . . . pic (ed. note: transcription error? maybe pci?) . . . pciehpd - Tainted: G D -------- 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 #1 panic+0x17/0x16f . . . kvm 2998 cpu0 disabled: perfctr wrmsr 0xc1 data 0xabcd 1. Is there any way to get the entire console display following a panic as a text file? 2. I take that this points to a hardware issue of some sort. Any suggestions as to where I look? The system has two NICs but one is disused and has no cable. Following a update last year I began receiving console messages complaining about this state but ignored them. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3