From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 15:48: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from veenet.value.net (value.net [209.182.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8778914E2D for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:47:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by veenet.value.net (8.8.7/8.7.4) with ESMTP id PAA21009; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monkeys.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28892; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:48:32 -0700 To: Dan Nelson Cc: Thomas David Rivers , mistwolf@ethereal.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A suggested kernel enhancement relating to kernel panics. In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:40:29 -0500. <19990617174029.B7287@dan.emsphone.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:48:32 -0700 Message-ID: <28890.929659712@monkeys.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19990617174029.B7287@dan.emsphone.com>, you wrote: >In the last episode (Jun 17), Thomas David Rivers said: >> >> If you have the savecore file from the panic, I've done >> this in the past: >> >> strings savecore.XX | grep "panic" >> >> usually the message pops right out :-) > >When savecore saves a core, it logs the panic string via syslog: > > if (panicstr) > syslog(LOG_ALERT, "reboot after panic: %s", panic_mesg); > else > syslog(LOG_ALERT, "reboot"); > >So it's in /var/log/messages too. Well, I am getting sudden/unexpected reboots and this has happened several times now. Each time I look in /var/log/messages and there is NOTHING there... just sendmail log entries, and other stuff that makes it clear that the system was just going about its business normally, and then WHAMO! Out the clear blue, I see the standard set of message you get as the system is actually coming back up _after_ a crash. It is almost as if someone pressed the reset button, but I don't believe that anybody is doing that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message