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md/raid:md2: cannot start dirty degraded array, kernel panic

After having made use of a remote power switch, my server did not come back online. When I went to the datacenter and reboot the computer on the spot I see the server booting (I see the centos progress bar with running almost all the way to the end)…
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Sudden kernel panics on Linux server

A few days ago a server I manage had a panic, after 400+ days of uptime. I rebooted it and it worked for two days or so, then it hit an "oops: cpu#n stuck for 61s" for various values of n. Rebooted again, and today the original kernel panic appeared…
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New kernel compilation on CentOS

I'm trying to compile and install kernel 3.2.9 for CentOS 5.6. I compiled new kernel and installed kernel modules: make && make modules_install I also created new initrd image: mkinitrd initrd-3.2.9 3.2.9 I copied kernel-3.2.9, initrd-3.2.9 and…
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Issues debugging a kernel panic (custom kernel)

I'm looking to compile a custom kernel from the official source tree (kernel.org). The machine itself runs the latest stable RHEL kernel without issues but I can't seem to figure out why it's panicking on any stock kernel. I suspect it's a driver…
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Kernel Panic after Installation Issues with Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS

Update 2 The installation from Update 1 was successful. Update 1 Just removed RAID10 from all six drives, and RAID10 configured only the first four devices. After doing so, the installation was able to proceed past the Ubuntu splash screen. So…
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Corrupted Kernel Output via Serial Connection

I have a server that Kernel Panics every once in a while, and I'm trying to get all of the output in order to debug it further. It is running RedHat 4, so the kernel version is only 2.6.9, too old for kexec or kdump. Thus, I have a serial cable…
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What can cause a kernel hang on redhat 4?

I've to solve a nasty problem on a ten machine "cluster": randomly one of these machine hang during an hard computation, sometime still ping sometime not. The problem was described me at the phone, I've still no touch/see these machine, so I can't…
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IBM X3650 with Red Hat Enterprise 4.8 kernel panics with error on empty memory bank

I have 3 IBM X3650 load balanced (round robin) with Red Hat Enterprise 4.8. One of them has intermittent kernel panics and reports an error on 2 particular memory banks (3 and 5) which are empty. I only have memory module on bank 1,4,7 and 10. I…
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How should I capture Linux kernel panic stack traces?

What's current best practice to capture full kernel stack traces on a Linux system (RHEL 5.x, kernel 2.6.18) that occasionally panics in a device driver? I'm used to the "old" SunOS way of doing things - crash dumps get written to swap, and on…
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Debian Lenny syslog kernel messages

I've recently got a hard drive swap on my colo'd box. I reinstalled Debian Lenny on the new drive and setup everything. Recently I've been getting these messages from the kernel (viewed on the terminal and later on /var/log/messages: Mar 22 09:04:29…
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Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) after CentOS custom image import DigitalOcean

I'm trying to import an existing CentOS VM from a VMware environment to run on Digitalocean vis their custom images option. I'm able to successfully run the VMDK in both VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. I've tried using the VMDK itself, and…
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Failing to Mount Root on PXE Image

I got DHCP/TFTP working great with no problems today. I can PXE Boot memtest off of the server with no problem, so I know there's nothing wrong there. For some reason, the image I'm trying to boot into just doesn't want to cooperate. I'm completely…
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Can't boot Ubuntu 18.04.1 direct disk on Linode

I get a kernel panic stating that root cannot be mounted if I boot my Direct Disk installation of Ubuntu 18.04.1 in paravirtualization mode, as seen in this screenshot from the Glish terminal: Any idea why I can't boot? Kernel module? GRUB…
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Debug sudden shutdowns

I have two (new)workstations showing weird symptoms: they randomly power off without any sort of warning or delay,... They just may or may not power off at any given time and reboot after that. The OS is Windows 10. I know that this may well be…
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centos 6 kernel panic

Someone asked me to help him with his very slow server then I just logged in and initiated an update then I rebooted the server it couldn't start up again and gone in kernel panic on all kernels even the old one .. I started the server in system…
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