From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 27 5:18:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (sentinel.office1.bg [195.24.48.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FA0337B719 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 05:18:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 3056 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Mar 2001 13:17:42 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:17:42 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Dmitry Samersoff Cc: Daniel O'Connor , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need advice (server continue dies) Message-ID: <20010327161742.B2374@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Dmitry Samersoff , Daniel O'Connor , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3AC066DC.EB973AE1@wplus.net> <20010327154846.A2374@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <3AC08FB5.A79E058A@wplus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AC08FB5.A79E058A@wplus.net>; from dms@wplus.net on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:03:49PM +0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:03:49PM +0400, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: > Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:32PM +0400, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: > > > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > > > > > On 27-Mar-01 Dmitry Samersoff wrote: > > > > > I also have a kernel crash dump and could post it here if no one can > > > > > give me a good advice without it ;-))) > > > > > > > > If you haven't compiled the kernel with debugging symbols then you should do so.. > > > > > > I done it but it's remote server and I have a problem to get valid > > > crash dump - > > > last attempt was unsuccessful - I see the only file "minfree" > > > in /var/crash > > > > Have you run dumpon and/or savecore? You need to at least run dumpon > > *before* the kernel crashes, to tell it what device to dump on; later, > > when the machine reboots, you want to run savecore to fetch the coredump, > > and store it into /var/crash. > > > > This is all best done by specifying dumpdev in rc.conf. You'll have to > > manually run dumpon the first time, before the machine crashes; after > > the crash, the rc scripts shall run both dumpon and savecore, because > > the dumpdev setting in rc.conf tells them to. > > Thank you! > I run dumpon now and insert it in rc.conf > > The only thing I can ask hosting support is press > on crash and then type "panic". > > Is it enough to get a good kernel core? Yes, that should be enough. Hmm.. if you have 'options DDB' in the kernel config, the machine should fall to DDB by itself, when a kernel panic occurs. Or does it just crash, without a panic? If so, pressing Ctrl-Alt-Esc would be needed. G'luck, Peter -- If this sentence didn't exist, somebody would have invented it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message