From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 22 16:15:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D6937B823 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:15:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA03062; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:45:19 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:45:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brian Beattie Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help diagnoseing a panic Message-ID: <20000223104519.A2912@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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