Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:57:21 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: david reid <david@jetnet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to get more info Message-ID: <20051208215721.GA5759@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4398A23E.20405@jetnet.co.uk> References: <439875CF.5020006@jetnet.co.uk> <20051208180732.GA23742@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <4398A23E.20405@jetnet.co.uk>
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--OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:14:38PM +0000, david reid wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:05:03PM +0000, David Reid wrote: > > > >>I'm running -STABLE and at present I'm being lucky to get more than 6 > >>hours uptime! The problem (and reason for this email) is to ask if there > >>is anything I can do to try and get more info on th crashes to help > >>debug and correct them. When the system goes it just reboots, no panic > >>or information written to any logs. It's been doing it for a while but > >>the last few days have seen it happening more often. > >> > >>I'm running a GENERIC kernel with WITNESS enabled. I'm more than willing > >>to try and help find/fix the problem, but the lack of information is > >>stopping me from doing much! > > > > > >While there are other possibilities, this sounds a lot like a hardware > >problem. Have you tried running memtest86 on the machine >=20 > memtest86 reports no errors in repeated running - though I am running it= =20 > again at the moment, but in 3 hours of tests this time it hasn't shown=20 > any errors :-( OK, it may take longer than that to trigger a problem, but it's at least not a blatantly obvious memory issue. Are you running X when the system reboots? If so, you may be getting a panic message that you can't see because of that. Do you have DDB in your kernel config? -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDmKxAXY6L6fI4GtQRAswMAKCvT4LudepwZwvIsarF6+MyiYWknwCgqm8W na0SNfH0pvX/R80vvaSSe8M= =zg+c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY--
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