Comment 6 for bug 1132129

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Stéphane Gourichon (stephane-gourichon-lpad) wrote : Re: Kernel crash and oops since 3.5.0-24-generic (3.5.0-23 ok).

Another oops yesterday evening with kernel 3.5.0-25-generic.
Took photograph of screen. Can attach if useful.
Could not restore session access or login on any text-mode tty. Had to force shut off.

It looks like /var/log/dmesg* don't record oops, probably because it's only dmesg just after boot.

$ ls -al /var/log/dmesg*

 2042 ls -al /var/log/dmesg*

-rw-r----- 1 root adm 67739 mars 2 14:05 /var/log/dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 72992 mars 2 08:52 /var/log/dmesg.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 16475 févr. 28 10:52 /var/log/dmesg.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 16973 févr. 23 22:58 /var/log/dmesg.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 16890 févr. 22 18:26 /var/log/dmesg.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 16671 févr. 21 16:48 /var/log/dmesg.4.gz

* zgrep -i oops /var/log/dmesg* || echo no match
no match

Considering to try latest kernel soon, but starting holiday time may delay.