Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:45:00 +0800 From: "Jiawei Ye" <leafy7382@gmail.com> To: "=?UTF-8?Q?Johan_Str=C3=B6m?=" <johan@stromnet.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Total crash in gdb!.. something is broken!.. Was: Re: FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC? Message-ID: <c21e92e20609242344q2d8258c2t4cf5c0d2fb7cb107@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <955CD271-C649-4423-848C-42912C5134A2@stromnet.org> 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>
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On 9/25/06, Johan Ström <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='AUTO'
dumpdir='/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.
Jiawei
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