Re: [gentoo-hardened] PAX: General protection fault, where logged?

[Will Keaney]

Brian A. Davis wrote:
> I'm getting a PAX General protection fault, which outputs a stack
> trace to the console (monitor), but there's no way for me to get it
> since the machine is crashed at this point.
>
> Where would this be getting logged? grep PAX * in /var/log doesn't
> turn up anything.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
There are a couple of ways to get the trace from this.  One is to attach 
a serial console to the machine in question and log the crash from 
another computer (see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt).
Another is to configure netconsole, which will allow you to capture 
kernel messages from another machine over ethernet.  See 
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for instructions 
on this.
If you have a digital camera, you can take a picture of the stack trace.
Finally, you can transcribe it by hand.  This is veeeery tedious.

Hope this helps.

Will