[ale] First Linux crash!

[Jim Lynch]

Let's see.  No indications of anything wrong.  No log entries with
anything unusual.  Syslog and messages are silient.  Nothing in any text
file in /var/log to indicate a problem, except the restart message.  Is
there something I can toggle or set to cause it to dump?  It may have
just hung rather than crash.  I sure wish this thing had a NMI dump
feature.

The network card is a generic pci card.  Realtek perhaps?  It's one of
the many $12 cards you see at every computer show.  

I guess I'll have to beat on it from multiple directions to see what
makes it fail.  What failed was a very large, perhaps >1 gbyte data
transfer.  As I say, I was watching the serial console when it crapped
out the second time, but didn't see any errors.

Thanks,
jim.

Jim Lynch wrote:
> 
> Well, I've finally done it.  Not once but twice.  I crashed Linux.  This
> is the first time I've actually crashed Linux where it wasn't a dumb
> mistake on my part.  Sure I've created kernels that crapped out, but
> that was my fault.  I've been running linux since version 0.12 (1992)
> and I thought it was bulletproof. 8)
> 
> Anyway what happens is I'm running 2.4.18 as a file server.  Samba
> shared files for backing up my and my wife's Win98 systems.  It's worked
> flawlessly until this weekend.  I tried to backup from my system and it
> killed Linux.  I was monitoring the console (serial, no monitor) but
> when the thing died it just stopped.  No error messages, nothing in any
> log file that I could find.
> 
> How do I go about looking for the cause of this?  If the kernel panics,
> does it not dump to the serial port?  Will I have to hook up a monitor
> to see it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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