From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 2 04:05:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B270516A4DD for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:05:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28DAA43D45 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:05:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4DD979BDDB; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:35:51 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:35:51 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20060902040551.GI25190@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8/UBlNHSEJa6utmr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: System down, won't come up (was: Oh, no....) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:05:52 -0000 --8/UBlNHSEJa6utmr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 1 September 2006 at 20:30:24 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my > FreeBSD has kernel crashed. The kernel err is 18 I believe a > int divide by zero. I backup most stuff regularly but still have > several megs of data files. Can I fix this with a fixit disk? > Or is all hope lost? > > gary > > "Fatal trap 18: blah, blah.... > > "Uptime 1sec" It sounds like you forgot to say "it crashed and won't come up again". There are dozens of reasons why this could happen. What about booting the backup kernel? If that doesn't work either, you could have hardware problems, or you could have corrupted system binaries. In the latter case, the fixit disk might help, but I'd certainly try the backup kernel before the fixit disk: it's much easier. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --8/UBlNHSEJa6utmr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE+QMfIubykFB6QiMRAmUdAJ0akeuJZH43n5DZQS9dFwh6/3ovvACeMw8E SPZL/AazgAyYvlB4C+cRLk8= =QyU5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8/UBlNHSEJa6utmr--