[mythtv-users] OT. Howto diagnose machine dying/crashing

[Mark]

On Friday 15 September 2006 12:04, Tim Berger wrote:
> On 9/15/06, Mark <mark at ripitup.ca> wrote:
> -snip-
>
> Interesting.  Actually you are right, I am using XFS.  I wonder if this
>
> > could
> > be the reason.  I am unable to switch now to JFS or EXT3 as I have
> > 700Gigs of
> > data on it.  Hmmmm.  I am trying to get a crashdump to no avail. I have
> > been
> > trying to setup netdump and I keep getting this error ( yes I have setup
> > the
> > server and client with NETDUMPADDR=192.168.0.2 ) but here is what I get
> > one
> > start of netdump client:
> > netdump: cannot arp  on eth0
> > netdump: cannot find 192.168.0.2 in arp cache
> > netdump: can't resolve 192.168.0.2 MAC address
> > netdump server address resolution                          [FAILED]
> >
> > I have DEV=eth0 set as well which is correct.
> > Ideas?
>
> I've seen some buggy versions of netdump with this problem - easily
> resolved by hardcoding the mac address of the other machine in
> /etc/sysconfig/netdump (on redhat) with the SYSLOGMACADDR parameter.  Just
> make sure syslog on your remote machine will accept messages from other
> machines and that it is running.

Here is the dmesg error on why I cant start netdump:

netconsole: Unknown parameter `netlog'

Thoughts on why?