From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 18 12:12:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F70837B4EC for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 12:12:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4885 invoked by uid 100); 18 Feb 2001 20:12:53 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14992.11461.884930.102242@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:12:53 -0600 To: Matt Dillon Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestions for diagnosing lockups In-Reply-To: <200102182008.f1IK87k31550@earth.backplane.com> References: <14991.58225.783986.487533@guru.mired.org> <200102181936.f1IJanm31380@earth.backplane.com> <14992.9931.334001.521780@guru.mired.org> <200102182008.f1IK87k31550@earth.backplane.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon types: > I dunno. I think we won't know until you manage to get the broken > into DDB. From there you should be able to do a 'trace' and a 'ps' > to hopefully see where things have locked up. If you have setup a > dump device & swap, you should also be able to 'panic' the kernel from DDB > and get a core dump. I'm looking for hints on how to do that. The first freeze - with X left running - didn't respond to Control-Alt-Escape. That's why I asked if X had known interactions with DDB. On further thought, it might be a problem with stealing the console. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message