What is a Kernal Panic?
 

I got an email from my host saying one of my servers suffered a Kernel Panic. I looked it up online, too much "tech" for me for me understand. Any hosting gurus here want to explain what it is and what causes it?

in lamens terms more then likely a piece of hardware went to shit and caused the driver for it to crap ther server

... or depending on the data center the tech borked your server and they just threw that at you

what OS and is this a co-lo

RHE, and it's not a co-lo.

Kernal Panic is just before Kernel Death.

Either way it's not a good thing.

The best way to check into the cause of the panic is
to view the file "/var/log/messages" for anything around
the time the panic occured. In general they occur due to
a hardware error (driver, disk, memory). Immediately before
the panic message in the log, you should see a message
giving you a clue as to the cause.

Also run "dmesg" to check the system messages from the
last startup. If you are running with RAID sets, ensure the
volumes came back clean. I have seen tons of RHE systems
panic when one of the disks in the RAID set goes bad.

Hope this helps.

When you are so scared you shit corn?

On mac I believe it's an internal system error where your info is lost for good.

It's what happens right before it becomes a yummy piece of popcorn.

could be software related and/or hardware related.
it does not mean you need a new server.

most likely a configuration issue

RHE, then its no big deal maybe 5 minutes to troubleshoot the defective hardware and or mount the main drive on another machine

some hosting companies only resell dedicated servers and have no access to the data center at all and this sounds likes the case with you since otherwise they would have easily been able to tell you what piece failed and why

RHE is real sensitive to cheap nic cards so I would advise them to start there

out of kfc chicken, reboot oven

Please dont remind me to it.

That's fucking funny.