My Fedora 17 get's a Kernel Panic on shutdown. I then switch the computer off manually.
How can I read the log of that Kernel Panic when I boot the computer again?
I'd like to search the internet for it and want to copy and paste from it.
I could finally help myself by viewing the file /var/log/messages which contains what dmesg outputs but also from previous boots. I'm not 100% sure that it actually is totally the exact same, but it helped me to troubleshoot my problem. Combine with less it is easier to handle as the file can grow large:
# less /var/log/messages
I hope this information is useful even if it might be not technically correct. It helped me in my case.
related question -> here
dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer. the default action is to read all messages from kernel ring buffer.
open a terminal and type :
> dmesg
all logs files in fedora are store in /var/log
in fedora 17 gnome-system-log is install it by default...
activities → aplication → system tools
more information → man dmesg
I have the same problem, even I upgraded the Kernel. image description
this is a bug feel free to fill a bug report in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ ...
These are some common log files
/var/log/message: General message and system related stuff
/var/log/auth.log: Authenication logs
/var/log/kern.log: Kernel logs
/var/log/cron.log: Crond logs (cron job)
/var/log/maillog: Mail server logs
/var/log/qmail/ : Qmail log directory (more files inside this directory)
/var/log/httpd/: Apache access and error logs directory
/var/log/lighttpd: Lighttpd access and error logs directory
/var/log/boot.log : System boot log
/var/log/mysqld.log: MySQL database server log file
/var/log/secure: Authentication log
/var/log/utmp or /var/log/wtmp : Login records file
/var/log/yum.log: Yum log files
In short /var/log is the location where you should find all Linux logs file. However some applications such as httpd have a directory within /var/log/ for their own log files
OR
you can use logwatch to install logwatch on fedora -----> yum install logwatch and there is log file viewer in fc17
Asked: 2012-06-07 02:49:30 -0500
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please edit your answer with the problem are you getting ? kernel panic is a very general error , we need more information is a fresh install or upgrade ? maybe you are affecting to this bug's -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820351
you can also use -> sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep "Kernel panic"