From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 04:27:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBEF37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightpro1.lightpro.de (lightpro1.lightpro.de [213.133.98.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E24F43F75 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:27:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from h@schmalzbauer.de) Received: from akima (ppp-62-245-162-130.mnet-online.de [62.245.162.130]) (authenticated bits=0)h6GBRAS5014178; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:27:10 +0200 From: "Harald Schmalzbauer" To: "Doug White" Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:26:53 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20030715223048.C21327@carver.gumbysoft.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:27:11 -0000 Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > I'm experimenting with 5.1-REL for some weeks and during that time I had > > some mysterious hangs which I didn't take serious because I modified > > /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c to support my CF-Card-Reader. > > But now I saw exactly the same problem on my brand new (and cosidered by > > hardware extremely different) fileserver. > > > > The machine freezes for about one minute and then reboots > itself withut any > > error message. > > Sounds like its panicking and making a crashdump. Do you have console > access? Can you perhaps compile with 'options DDB' and get on the console > when it dies? If it worked right you should see the panic message and > have a db> prompt. I can do so on my workstation. More when my server is running again. > > > It happens when I do a "/stand/sysinstall" or a "sysctl -a" > > If this is an i386 machine, I'd begin to suspect bad memory. Usually yes, but now exactly the same problem crashed my server so I'm quiet sure it's no hardware problem. -Harry > > -- > Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org >