Ah nice...
Thanks, I'll look into that !
Regards
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] De la part de
> Oleg Sadov
> Envoyé : mercredi 4 juin 2014 06:10
> À : [log in to unmask]
> Objet : Re: kernel upgrades : random kernel panics
>
> For debugging you may try to use kdump:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-
> kdump.html
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:52 PM, SCHAER Frederic <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > This is not the first time it happens for us, and it again happened
> > yesterday : we rebooted our SL6 machines into a new kernel
> > (2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64), and *bam*, one of them got into kernel panic.
> >
> > Rebooting into the previous kernel works fine.
> >
> >
> >
> > Last time this happened, this was on a virtual machine (which is the exact
> > same VM as many other VMs which were fine, running SL6.5) : I uninstalled
> > the kernel, reinstalled it, rebooted : kernel panic.
> >
> > I zeroes the kernel files in /boot, suspecting there was something weird
> > with the filesystem, ran fsck, removed the kernel, reinstalled : kernel
> > panic.
> >
> > On that specific VM, I ended giving up on that kernel, and it appears that
> > it is finally happily booting on latest kernel 2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64
> > even if we did not fix the previous issue… ??
> >
> >
> >
> > This time, this is another physical machine (SL 6.3) which went into kernel
> > panic, and since it’s a core storage machine I did not have time to run as
> > many tests as with the VM or as when this previously appeared.
> >
> > I remember this already happened on SL5, and reinstalling “solved” the
> > issue…
> >
> >
> >
> > I’m wondering if others are facing this strange erratic behavior, and would
> > have ideas for debugging it ?
> >
> > For us, it appears this was one host failing for 359 working…
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks && regards
> >
> > Frederic
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