Loging question regarding: Oopses with kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5

[Jay Cliburn]

Mel wrote:
> Kimmo Koivisto wrote:
> 
>> I'm having strange problems, kernel oopses many times in a day, it 
>> used to be stable but after yum update (Oct 20) it started to oops.
>>
>> Four recorded oopses attached.
> 
> How were these logs obtained?
> 
> I have had 2 problems lately where I wanted to get logs like this and 
> don't know how. So far my attempts to get help with this have been 
> unanswered except for one reply that seemed to agree with the problem of 
> how to get them.
> 
> In one case I get a panic halt while trying to boot. Boot.log is empty. 
> I haven't been able to find any other log that has the information.
> 
> In the other case, I was trying to install FC6. If I try to add a repo 
> or choose the extras repo, I get a crash. It tells me that it is 
> probably a bug, to save the crash info, and to file a BZ report. How do 
> I do this? I can select the data and click on copy but after that any 
> action justs results in a system reboot.
> 
> I really would like to learn how to capture the data from these crashes 
>  and save it.
> 
> Mel
> 

I use a laptop (running hyperterminal or minicom) connected by null modem cable 
to the crashed machine's serial port.