From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Sep 13 15:11:43 2012
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D2E106566B;
	Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:11:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org)
Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9698FC0A;
	Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:11:41 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua
	[212.40.38.101])
	by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id SAA27161;
	Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:11:28 +0300 (EEST)
	(envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org)
Message-ID: <5051F7A0.90901@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:11:28 +0300
From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64;
	rv:15.0) Gecko/20120830 Thunderbird/15.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>
References: <op.wbwe9s0k34t2sn@tech304> <201205311157.42909.jhb@freebsd.org>
	<19d73256-b7c6-417e-a051-a5faeabf219d@email.android.com>
	<201209121520.26337.jhb@freebsd.org> <op.wkkwu1sx34t2sn@tech304>
In-Reply-To: <op.wkkwu1sx34t2sn@tech304>
X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash
X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD
	<freebsd-hackers.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>,
	<mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:11:43 -0000

on 13/09/2012 17:50 Mark Felder said the following:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:20:26 -0500, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> Are you still seeing this, and if so can you get a crashdump?  Also, I'm
>> curious if you only see this with SUJ or if plain UFS+SU works fine?
> 
> The crash on demand right now is producable on 8.x and 9.x, so SUJ isn't a
> requirement. Also, there is no crashdump available. The OS just hangs and stops
> taking input. There's no panic or coredump or anything of the like. You just have
> to nuke the VM and re-boot it back up.
> 
> And for the record we can't reproduce this crash in Xen...

Just curious - does VMWare provide a remote debugger support (gdb stub)?

-- 
Andriy Gapon