On 07/08/13 16:09, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 15:27 +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote: >> On 07/08/13 09:18, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 00:06 +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote: >> <snip> >>>> >>>> I've rebooted a few times since then - is there any kind of black box >>>> file I can attach to provide more information? >>> >>> Not by default. >>> >>> Ben. >> Is there a non-default way? >> The boot partition and the swap partition are two candidates for storing >> crash data that spring to mind. > > You can use kdump to store a crash dump. > > Also, if booting in UEFI mode, you can use efivars to store crash log > messages. This is currently disabled by default, but you can enable it > by setting module parameter efivars.pstore_disable=N. > > Ben. > I'm running on non-UEFI hardware.
I installed kdump-tools. How do I verify it works? Do I need to install a kdump kernel? Debug kernel? Kdump+Debug kernel? Philip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
