From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 16:10:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B894B16A400 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:10:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from lists.lc-words.com (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C96B13C469 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:10:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from [192.168.11.30] by lists.lc-words.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HvF8M-00055I-N7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:10:18 +0200 Message-ID: <4664392E.1030409@szalbot.homedns.org> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:09:18 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Feedback: 1HvF8M-00055I-N7 Subject: total system freeze - where to look for more 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: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:10:13 -0000 Dear all, Today - for the first time ever - I have a total system freeze. It occured after 105 days of uninterrupted work. The freeze was unrecoverable because even though I attached a screen to the machine, I was not able to do anything with it. I had to hard-reboot it. dmesg.today has just one line (and dmesg.yestarday is empty). pid 25536 (portmanager), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) This file was modified at night so it does not contain any useful information. Where can I look for more information? The only thing that comes to my mind is that today I installed denyhosts-2.6. It is possible that the freeze occured during dump operation which is done to a network drive mounted via mount_nfs option. FreeBSD lists.lc-words.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 22 12:52:41 CET 2007 root@192.168.11.51:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LISTS i386 Many thanks in advance! Zbyszek