Kernel Panic / Crash, Kdump no help

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:09:45 -0400
"Kevin  H. Hobbs" <hobbsk at ohiou.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 16:31 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:38:59 -0400
> > Does it crash when idle or only when you are doing something. 
> 
> It crashes in many cases, loaded, unloaded, in X, in run level 3, in run
> level 1.

What do you get on the console when not in X ?

> I now suspect the memory, so I'm testing each stick one at a time.
> Any clue why kexec and kdump don't work? 

Nope sorry

There is a tool called memtest86 which can do serious grade memory
testing and will also sometimes find cache problems as well if they are
there. Worth running on the box for a day or so