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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:54:20
Message-Id: m3cz6cqazi.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting by Rich Freeman
1 On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:08:34 -0500,
2 Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >
4 > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 9:08 AM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > Hi. So, foolish me, I decided to go from a working 5.10.155 system to
7 > > try latest lts of 5.15 which is 5.15.93. Compile, install went well,
8 > > but the system keeps rebooting. It gets all the way and even starts
9 > > the local services and then here are the last few lines, which may be
10 > > relevant or not:
11 > >
12 > > Feb 14 06:36:31 ccs.covici.com systemd[1]: Starting local.service...
13 > > Feb 14 06:36:31 ccs.covici.com systemd[1]: Starting
14 > > systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service...
15 > > Feb 14 06:36:31 ccs.covici.com bash[5753]: rm: cannot remove
16 > > '/etc/ppp/provider_is_up': No such file or directory
17 > > Feb 14 06:36:31 ccs.covici.com systemd[1]:
18 > > systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service: Deactivated successfully.
19 > > Feb 14 06:36:31 ccs.covici.com systemd[1]: Finished
20 > > systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service.
21 > > -- Boot 5c394be675854680a9cb616208f374f3 --
22 > >
23 > > Any trouble shooting suggestions as to what is making the system
24 > > reboot?
25 > >
26 >
27 > Where are you getting this from, the system log/journal? This doesn't
28 > seem like a clean shutdown, so if it is a kernel PANIC I wouldn't
29 > expect the most critical info to be in the log (since it will stop
30 > syncing to protect the filesystem). The details you need probably
31 > will be displayed on the console briefly. You can also enable a
32 > network console, which will send the dmesg output continuously over
33 > UDP to another device. This won't be interrupted by a PANIC unless
34 > there is some issue with the hardware or networking stack.
35 >
36 > If you can get the final messages on dmesg and the panic core dump
37 > that would help.
38 >
39 > The other thing you can do is try to capture a kernel core dump, but
40 > that is a bit more complicated to set up.
41 >
42 > Otherwise your log is just going to say that everything was fine until
43 > it wasn't.
44 >
45
46 Thanks a lot for responding.
47
48 OK, how would I set up logging to a network and what would I have to
49 do on another computer -- which in my case is Windows? I do have a
50 terminal program on there called teraterm which can do ssh, but that
51 is about what I have -- unless there is some other program I can put
52 on there.
53
54 --
55 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
56 How do
57 you spend it?
58
59 John Covici wb2una
60 covici@××××××××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>