[plug] Panic and keyboard leds

Brad Campbell brad at wasp.net.au
Mon Jan 19 15:28:40 WST 2004


Russell Steicke wrote:
> Speaking of searching for things...
> 
> I have a machine that locks up repeatable circumstances.  When that
> happens, the caps lock and scroll lock keys flash.  I believe that means
> something, but after much searching of web and kernel docs I can't find
> anything to tell me what it means.  (I failed google 101...)
> 
> Can someone please point me to some information about kernel panics (if
> that's what it is) and flashing keyboard leds?

The flashing leds are telling you it has paniced.
Set up a serial console and you can capture the oops on another machine.

Regards,
Brad



More information about the plug mailing list