Kernel panic at boot?
Jef Driesen
jefdriesen at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 19 18:27:17 UTC 2007
Corey Bettenhausen wrote:
> Jef Driesen wrote:
>> When I boot my Ubuntu desktop, the system often freezes at the point
>> where the splash screen appears (in a very early stage of the boot
>> sequence, because the progress bar is almost empty). When this happens,
>> the LEDs on my keyboard start flashing and I believe this indicates a
>> kernel panic.
>>
>> This happens quite often and as a result I often have to reset the
>> machine multiple times to make it boot. But once the system is finally
>> running, it works just fine.
>>
>> How do I find out what is causing the problem?
>
> Detailed logs are written on boot. You can view these logs by clicking
> on "System -> Administration -> System Log". Click on "kern.log" and
> "messages" in the tree on the left. That should give you a start on
> finding the problem.
I can't find anything useful in the log files. I think the kernel panic
occurs before anything is written to the logs? I booted without "quiet
splash" and made a photo of my display:
http://users.telenet.be/sacn/tmp/kernel_panic.jpg
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