[plug] Panic and keyboard leds

[Brad Campbell]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, that was not a particularly helpful response.
Checkout Documentation/serial-console.txt in your linux source dir for pointers on setting up a 
serial console. Grab the oops with a terminal program on another PC and then feed it into ksymoops 
on your machine to give you/someone else an idea of where the oops occurred in the kernel and what 
may have caused it.

Even better, install the morse-oops patch and take down the complete oops info via the keyboard leds 
flashing it out in morse code! (I'd go the serial console option if I were you!)

Regards,
Brad