Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:46:23 +0200 From: Phil Schulz <ph.schulz@gmx.de> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: J T <jtrask@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Core Dumping Message-ID: <42B006FF.1040300@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20050614210544.GB29181@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <7bd5f1c205061405533f492306@mail.gmail.com> <20050614210544.GB29181@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 14 June 2005 at 5:53:58 -0700, J T wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>For some reason my machine keeps crashing almost every night at around >>3:00am with the following test in the messages log file: >> >>Jun 14 03:02:28 taco kernel: pid 7174 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal 11 >>(core dumped) >> >>... >> >>I decided to rm the file >>'/usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_5_3' just to >>see if that fixed it. And it did, but why was it crashing the entire >>box? > > > The message you see there has nothing directly to do with the crash of > the system, though it may be an indication of hardware issues. To > find out, you'll need to take a processor dump and see what's going > on. Unfortunately, I can no longer find the instructions in the > online handbook; does anybody else know where they are? Not first the place a user will look for them but they're still there... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html Regards, Phil.
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