On 2008-07-21, Linonut <linonut@bollsouth.nut> wrote:[color=blue]
> * Igoramus6286 peremptorily fired off this memo:
>[color=green]
>> Here's another one. Today a Gutsy server locked up.
>>
>> I had this happen a while ago on another server where the disk was
>> bad, and there were bad sectors in the swap file. The data in bad
>> sectors confused the kernel (no surprise) and it started doing
>> oom-killer. Replacing the hard drive cured the problem.
>>
>> So I want to look at HP Proliant SmartArray disks, but unfortunately,
>> they are behind hardware SCSI. So smartmontools does not support them,
>> per Bruce Allen.
>>
>> So what do I do? How can I diagnoze these disks?
>>
>> output from /var/log/messages[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> Both operating systems have many diagnostic tools. Everyone who cares
>>> about system maintenance should try to learn to use them.[/color][/color]
>
> Yeah, I had audacious (audio player) crash on me. Segfault.
>
> So I run "strace audacious", and see a reference to a config file for
> it. I delete it, and audadcious comes up fine and creates a new config
> file.
>[/color]

And how do I "strace" a system lockup?

Alternatively, has anyone tried running a kernel watchdog?
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