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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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Subject: Re: crash analysis
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, george donnelly wrote:

> [Fernando Gleiser wrote (fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) on 6/7/03 3:28 PM]
>
>
> here's an excerpt:
>
> reboot           ~                         Sat Jun  7 08:23
> user1          ttyp0    IP    Sat Jun  7 08:23 - crash  (00:00)
> user 2            ttyp9    IP   Fri Jun  6 21:21 - crash  (11:02)
> user3           ttyp8    IP     Fri Jun  6 21:20 - crash  (11:02)
>
> Does crash always mean that there was eg a panic or exhaustion of resources?
> or could it also mean that the machine crashed as a result of a power-loss?

Yes, crash means the machine was not properly shut down.  As far as
last(1) is concerned, a power loss is a "crash"

>
> > Do you have crashdumps enabled?
>
> I don't think so...

Try enabling them, if the machine is panicing, you'd know the reason.


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