[ale] nice - extracting a kernel panic from a tail -f maillog

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 09:47:25 EDT 2012


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On Aug 30, 2012 9:29 AM, "Derek Atkins" <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I was running tail on maillog when the panic happened so it's 2 sets of
> > console text overlaid.
> > But it could be sendmail.
>
> It's unlikely that sendmail per se is the problem.  Actually, the oops
> says that the application-context running when the oops occurred was
> "python" (pid 2048).  I doubt changing to postfix would change anything,
> here.
>
> The crash appears to be in __getblk(), coming from ext3_getblk().
>
> Bad disk?  Bad controller?  Bad memory?
>
> -derek
>
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