From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 22:59:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B31A1065672 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:59:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from loudredz71@yahoo.com) Received: from n15a.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (n15a.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48FAD8FC20 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:59:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from loudredz71@yahoo.com) Received: from [68.142.200.225] by n15.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 21 Sep 2008 22:47:18 -0000 Received: from [68.142.201.66] by t6.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 21 Sep 2008 22:47:18 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp418.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 21 Sep 2008 22:47:18 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 893675.92751.bm@omp418.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 63504 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Sep 2008 22:47:18 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=lwRKyki5F/VADACinm9jnPvwkVV8PdxbkI344y1SMIuwirYzarBcI9z5+P9mkvvAVHiVG1JUZcjTRAupMDcFlQXpylkEA1JVWzADkcQOx3DKidjgtYCfyJ1xWyNCmDfEgF4y7t9+0NVOSi5c5wf3CH/aJXPEzMTQ5qt5QJshPRc=; X-YMail-OSG: NE6ysmkVM1mQVh3D7iCBupoZsR2cK8sREQGDEamNvhS.NtXtDz57oiYg1HWnFuecZeVhHTeB6DjYnyN85_Zpp3ZZLPYjPInCcNy23KOt7ht5dtnGxVtiWigXRIqAwx3.Po7sGQ-- Received: from [24.155.73.141] by web45313.mail.sp1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:47:18 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1096.28 YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:47:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <355556.63449.qm@web45313.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Subject: can someone help me out with the vmcore.0 information? 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: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:59:53 -0000 i have a server that just contantly panics and reboots. its a fairly fresh install of 7.0-p4. i have never had a server behave like this and i have no idea really where to start. this is the first line of vmcore.0, is this pertinant? vmcore.0:sys/i386/i386/bios.c: sig '%s' from 0x%0x to 0x%0x offset %d out of BIOS bounds 0x%0x - 0x%0x if anyone can tell me where to begin for troubleshooting errors like this, i would really appreciate the pointers. the ISP has supposedtly already performed a memory check (from within the running OS tho, not a bootable memtest86 disk, which the latter would have been what i preferred...). thanks, Jonathan