RE: [Xen-devel] crashes

[James Harper <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

cool, thanks. It looks like i can just fiddle with values in /etc/console-tools/config under debian, now that I know what i'm looking for.

 

hopefully next time I crash it I can see what's what. I'll probably have to hook up a serial console eventually but that will involve sitting there with my laptop which I don't have time to do presently.

 

thanks again.

 

James

 

 

 

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From: Andy Isaacson
Sent: Fri 30/07/2004 1:32 PM
To: Ian Pratt
Cc: James Harper; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] crashes

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 01:39:26AM +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> >When I went to look at the screen after a hang to see if there
> >was an oops or anything like it, the screen was blanked and
> >wouldn't wake up - anyone know how to stop that behaviour?
> 
> That's Linux behaviour -- not a lot we can do about
> it. Collecting crash messages is much easier if you have an
> attached serial line...

man 1 setterm.  The command you want is "setterm -blank 0", which should
probably go in an initscript somewhere.  I think some distributions have
an /etc/ file with a switch for you to toggle, but not the ones I'm
using right now...

-andy