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General Questions • Re: Help with diagnosing an OS freeze

OK, I installed kdump-tools and used this command

Code:

sudo grep USE_KDUMP /etc/default/kdump-tools
to check and I have USE_KDUMP=1.

With

Code:

sudo grep LOAD_KEXEC /etc/default/kexec
I get LOAD_KEXEC=true

I tried to reboot as recommeded to enable the crash kernel parameter, however the system hanged on reboot (is this normal?).
After doing a hard reset, I restarted the system and checked with

Code:

sudo kdump-config show
I get "current state: ready to dump".

So I decided to test with

Code:

echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
This command triggers exactly the freeze I am trying to diagnose (which I now assume is caused by a kernel panic). Nothing responds, so I have to hard reset again.
After restarting the system I check my /var/crash and there is no kernel dump there.

Am I doing something wrong or did I miss something?

Statistics: Posted by scarm — 2024-09-20 21:32



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