Re: System Panic Makes My Life Easier

Just wanted to mention I had similar issues with an older system and found
it was related to the SSD controller. A certain vendor was prone to
lockingnup the system but it's more frequently see issue was random
"issues" as the SSD became "locked". Once I swapped out the drive for
another brand, all problems were resolved.


On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:57 AM Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 08/07/2016 09:07 AM, Luke S. Crawford wrote:
>
> > Personally, I rely heavily on logging serial consoles.   The panic, if
> > it isn't obvious to me, which it often is, is usually something I can
> > take to srn or someone else who understands more than I do, and they can
> > then often give me an exact cause.   Often, searching for choice bits of
> > the backtrace takes me to kernel bugs.
>
> Not that I have incurred in that many kernel software related problems
> but I always thought they weren't going to be that helpful to *me*.
>
> Mostly every time I thought to connect a serial cable to my server was
> to control early boot stages, just in case there are some problems with
> grub to avoid to get to the next room.
>
> But now both kind of events happens so rarely I've forgot about my
> proposal.
>
> I've run out of unused serial cables but next amazon order will include
> one, $3 don't seem that much to learn something.
>
> Thanks for the encouragement
>
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