From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 08:36:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839AA16A4E2 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:36:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johan@stromnet.org) Received: from pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F4B43D45 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:36:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johan@stromnet.org) Received: from elfi.stromnet.org (213.67.205.103) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.076) id 4513E11C00089221; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:36:19 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elfi.stromnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FF445088; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:36:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at stromnet.org Received: from elfi.stromnet.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (elfi.stromnet.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mqBh+4lIKWvQ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:36:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [129.16.45.39] (dynamic-45-39.chl.chalmers.se [129.16.45.39]) by elfi.stromnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D47B345085; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:36:12 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: References: <118EDA90-D7D7-4A07-B7D2-3710384308D1@stromnet.org> <955CD271-C649-4423-848C-42912C5134A2@stromnet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <1ADF7CA0-B8C5-47FF-9C28-C649D5B13ECE@stromnet.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:36:08 +0200 To: Jiawei Ye X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Total crash in gdb!.. something is broken!.. Was: Re: FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:36:20 -0000 On Sep 25, 2006, at 08:45 , Jiawei Ye wrote: > On 9/25/06, Johan Str=F6m 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"