Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:36:08 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.org> To: Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Total crash in gdb!.. something is broken!.. Was: Re: FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC? Message-ID: <1ADF7CA0-B8C5-47FF-9C28-C649D5B13ECE@stromnet.org> In-Reply-To: <c21e92e20609242344q2d8258c2t4cf5c0d2fb7cb107@mail.gmail.com> References: <C8AEA7B4-3E12-43A7-A618-F35E74C1511C@stromnet.org> <118EDA90-D7D7-4A07-B7D2-3710384308D1@stromnet.org> <D5A683ED-67D0-4E2E-BE0C-E34812F9B52E@stromnet.org> <955CD271-C649-4423-848C-42912C5134A2@stromnet.org> <c21e92e20609242344q2d8258c2t4cf5c0d2fb7cb107@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sep 25, 2006, at 08:45 , Jiawei Ye wrote: > On 9/25/06, Johan Str=F6m <johan@stromnet.org> wrote: >> Fcking great.. Waking up and noting that the box has rebooted it self >> during the night... Yay!!... No kernel dumps, nothing in message >> log.. Nada... (this was on the "first" box, that is the one first in >> this thread) >> >> What exactly does >> >> kernel dumps on /dev/mirror/gm0s1b >> >> mean? Not that it saves any kernel dumps at least.. But otoh I have >> no clue why it crashed at all and if it even did try to dump kernel >> or if it just blacked out as when i tried to debug clamd... >> >> -- >> Johan > It means that the system died and released the sphincter when it did. > If you have dumpdev=3D'AUTO' > dumpdir=3D'/var/crash' > in your rc.conf, then you can find the crash dump in ${dumpdir}, then > you can use kgdb to retrieve the backtrace from the dump. > I got dumpdev=3D"/dev/mirror/gm0s1b", savecore doesnt extract any dumps = :/ > Jiawei > > -- =20 > "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, > then to the end user it's a duck, and end users have made it pretty > clear they want a duck; whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or > coffee is irrelevant." > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-=20 > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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