Is there a way to capture kernel panic info?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Aug 2 13:52:21 UTC 2008


Karl Larsen wrote:

> Avi Schwartz wrote:
>> >From time to time, while trying to send my laptop to sleep, I get a
>> kernel panic which dumps a lot of information on the screen.  Is there a
>> way to save this information into a file?  I would like to report this
>> issue but I have no way to capture the crash text.

>     It sounds like a change in your hardware when you turn off the
> laptop. Since it turns back on when you want it, this is not a problem :-)

Duh!!!!  Of course it's a problem.  Every time you get a kernel panic
there's a risk of corruption on your filesystems, if anything has been left
uncommitted.  It's probably _unlikely_ but it's certainly a risk.
-- 
derek





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