From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 2:43:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nau.antar.bryansk.ru (ns2.bryansk.ru [195.239.214.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C98237B4C5 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:43:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zombie.antar.bryansk.ru (zombie.antar.bryansk.ru [195.239.214.68]) by nau.antar.bryansk.ru (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA26264 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:42:46 +0400 (MSD) Received: (from kappa@localhost) by zombie.antar.bryansk.ru (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9K9hKd02414 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:43:20 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from kappa@antar.bryansk.ru) X-Authentication-Warning: zombie.antar.bryansk.ru: kappa set sender to kappa@antar.bryansk.ru using -f Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:43:10 +0400 From: Alex Kapranoff To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: What to do to debug a hang on a 4.1.1-STABLE system? Message-ID: <20001020134310.A966@zombie.antar.bryansk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good day to all. We have a 4.1.1-STABLE system (rebuilt ten days ago) as our web-server and X workstation. In recent 12 days we had four total hangs. Consoles and network lock till cold reboot. Three of four times I was running X and just surfing. Then mouse freezes and ka-boom happens. No pings, no keyboard blinkenlights, nothing. This kinda bothers me and I just wanted to ask about the ways to diagnose and then shoot the trouble. Are there any ways to get a crash dump or whatever in this situation? Serial console? Syslog to a remote host? I need advice, badly. It's a PIII 600 box with a 128 of SDRAM and 76Gb on four hdds. It has an Acorp motherboard with Intel815 chipset. We've plugged in an old S3 video card to get X running (XFree86 doesn't support i815 built-in videocontroller on a FreeBSD). -- Alex Kapranoff, +7(0832)791845 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message