From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 21:19:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C49B106566B for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:19:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77DD8FC08 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFC8b-0000Ha-Lp for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:19:09 +0200 Received: from p5dcd6b31.dip.t-dialin.net ([93.205.107.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:19:09 +0200 Received: from jumper99 by p5dcd6b31.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:19:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: "Helmut Schneider" Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5dcd6b31.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.320 X-Ref: news.gmane.org ~XNS:00000167 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110427-2, 27.04.2011), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: panic, but /var/crash ist empty X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:19:11 -0000 Helmut 'Ingrid' Schneider wrote: > running 8.2-RELEASE-p1 within VMWare ESXi 4.1-u1 I want to use raw > devices as hard disks. I create the devices using this link: > > http://www.mattiasholm.com/node/33 > > I tried 3 different hard drives (Seagate 2x80GB and 1x400GB SATA2) > which are fine on a physical machine. I also ran Seatool many hours on > all of them without errors. > > I can partiton the disks and create a few files/directories on it. But > as soon as I copy a larger number of files to those disks (tried with > MBR and GPT) the VM reboots instantly (I tried cp, dump/restore and > rsync). No "Rebooting within 15 seconds", just snap. I think I can > see an panic but I'm not sure, it's too fast. > > (as far as I can see most of the times the data on the first UFS slice > (and only the first UFS slice!) of the partition gets severly > corrupted, most of the time all that is left are a few files within > lost+found. Sometimes all the labels are gone but are recoverable > using bsdlabel -R) > > The problem is that /var/crash remains empty. > > What can I do to create a backtrace to open a PR? FWIW: While a sysinstall from CD (tried 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2) also dies short before the end of the installation, Ubuntu 10.4 (EXT4), Windows 7 and OpenBSD install fine and also do not die when copying a lots of files... :(