Linux Kernel Crashes -- need help tracing...

[coplaniuk]

Right...my immediate problem is that my kernel crashes often enough to be a pain. I keep getting these kernel panic messages some having to do with swapon errors, and so forth. But I realize I need to provide more information than that. However, I can't seem to find the log file to see what the error message is. Once I see the error message, my computer is frozen so I can't really do anything about it. And it's an awful lot to write out by hand -- at least with any accuracy.

Does anyone know how I might be able to troubleshoot the problem? I want to get to the bottom of that.

[NeddySeagoon]

coplaniuk,

Since it appears to be related to swap. Turn swapping off with the swapoff command.

Try another kernel to see if its something you have done in the build. Boot the liveCD, mount your partitions and do the chroot steps. Now your system is running on top of the liveCD kernel. If thats stable, its your kernel. It that breaks too, it may be your hardware.

Are you overclocking? - Don't.
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