Odd thing just happened, was using my linode fine as always, then coudl no longer connect.

Went to my control panel and saw my linode "Powered Off". I was able to boot it back up, but was there an issue this afternoon?

Which kernel version?

If you only rebooted once, check the console logs via Lish (it only keeps the current, and the last boot's console logs).

If you haven't rebooted in a whle and were running and older kernel version, I'd guess you hit a bug.

-Chris

I am using the latest 2.4 series option.

Where can I view a host specific log? I ssh into host18 but the /var/log seems to be the same as my linode, is there a specific file I should be looking for that is different then the logs on my linode?

You can view the logs of everything that's printed on the console in Lish (note: in *Lish*, not bash) by using the "logview" command.

Hmm nothign interesting in the log. It seems it was doing it's normal operations (last operations being rsync), and then all of a sudden its booting up:

Oct 22 13:00:19 kami rsyncd[1292]: rsync on fsweb from dhcp16660120.neo.rr.com (24.166.60.120) 
Oct 22 13:00:45 kami rsyncd[1292]: wrote 230417 bytes  read 68 bytes  total size 338758448 
Oct 22 15:11:47 kami syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Oct 22 15:11:48 kami kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Oct 22 15:11:48 kami kernel: Cannot find map file.
Oct 22 15:11:48 kami kernel: Checking for /dev/anon on the host...Not available (open failed with errno 6)
Oct 22 15:11:48 kami kernel: Linux version 2.4.27-linode34-1um (root@host4.linode.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.
2.2-5)) #1 Tue Oct 5 22:56:50 EDT 2004

From your *console* log (not syslog):

INIT: version 2.84 reloading
Assertion failure in __journal_drop_transaction() at checkpoint.c:587: "transaction->t_ilist == NULL"
Kernel panic: kernel BUG at checkpoint.c:587!
 <6>SysRq : Show Regs

Interesting -- this is then first panic I've seen with the linode31 kernel. Not sure what could have caused this, but there are some updates to UML which I'll be releasing in a new kernel very soon...

-Chris

BTW,

Lish Documentation is here.

-Chris