From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 2:46: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC4037B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:45:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 362B843E4A for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:45:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DC1DB8143C; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:15:52 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:15:52 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Patrick O'Reilly Cc: David , Stijn Hoop , FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: ! Fatal trap 12: System Crash twice in last 2 days Message-ID: <20020821094552.GN78608@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <025201c24833$3144f550$b50d030a@PATRICK> <03b601c24859$1648e380$b50d030a@PATRICK> <20020820145221.GJ88937@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <040d01c2485a$8ddcf5c0$b50d030a@PATRICK> <002901c248c2$9f1a4730$c26dc33f@handbasket> <001e01c248f5$e37a84c0$b50d030a@PATRICK> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001e01c248f5$e37a84c0$b50d030a@PATRICK> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Broken quoting. On Wednesday, 21 August 2002 at 11:33:52 +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > From: "David" >> >> Actually, I'm seeing the same problem. I found a page which gave >> me some info on how to prepare for a crash and what to do with it >> once it happens. >> >> >> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1 >> >> I'm still trying to get a crashdump but haven't been able to yet. >> savecore keeps telling me that no core was found. I'm trying again >> now, though, as I can get the fatal trap to happen fairly >> regularly. :) > > Ah - Now I don't feel so lonely anymore! > > Thanks for your input David. > > My box has gone down another two times during the night! And this is > after doing a fresh 'make world' which has re-built 4.6.2-RELEASE. This > is very embarrassing :( > > We should compare notes to try to narrow this thing down! > MoBo : Asus > CPU : Athlon 1700 We need the chipset as well. Can you post the content of /var/run/dmesg.boot? > Stability was 100% until about 3 days ago. As memory serves, the > changes which coincide with that date are cvsup from 4.6.1-p## to > 4.6.2, and portupgrade mrtg-2.9.21 to mrtg-2.9.22. In future I will > be keeping a strict logbook of changes to help narrow down problems > like this! > > Right now I am considering either reverting to 4.6.1, or 4.6-STABLE > which was suggested by Byron Schlemmer. The best choice would be 4.6-STABLE. But better still would be to find out what's going on, rather than trying to work around in the dark. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message