Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:45:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help diagnoseing a panic Message-ID: <20000223104519.A2912@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002221101530.28217-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002221101530.28217-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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On Tuesday, 22 February 2000 at 11:10:47 -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > I have started getting a panic in the past couple of weeks on my > 4.0-Current system. The immediate symptom is disk related. I was > wondering if anybody could give me some hints in trying to determine if > this is hardware or software. > > The problem occurs under heavy disk (SCSI) load "rm -rf /usr/src" or "pax > -rw / /usr /mnt" or even "make release". Setting up a serial console is > possible, thought difficult, since I lack the spare hardware to dedicate. > > The panic refers to an SCB I can copy down the error message if anybody is > willing to try to decypher it, so far the message tends to scroll off > before I get a chance. You really need to compile a kernel with debugging symbols, if you haven't already done so, and take a dump when the system crashes. There's a section on it in the handbook. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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