From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Mar 27 17: 8:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FD214D26 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:08:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA16840; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:38:07 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA06689; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:38:06 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990328103806.P53452@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:38:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: hometeam , Holtor Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Crashing Every 2 Days!! References: <19990326201242.18659.rocketmail@web114.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from hometeam on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 03:52:25PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 26 March 1999 at 15:52:25 -0500, hometeam wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Holtor wrote: > >> Hello, my server seems to be crashing or what I think >> it is doing it crashing about every 2 days now. >> I get this in /var/log/messages: >> Mar 26 03:33:32 shell src/ircd[4486]: Server Ready >> Mar 26 04:22:52 shell /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 >> Mar 26 04:22:52 shell /kernel: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 You should be getting more than that. >> It just seems to have crashed, that ircd had nothing to >> do with it, but i'm starting to think its not crashing >> anymore. It can't be, anyone know what it could be? >> I'm not on console, its a colocated server so it makes >> it much tougher. I thought it was some kind of power >> problem or someone is reseting it at their NOC, but >> they have told me thats not the case. After it >> comes back online though, I see this message in >> /var/log/messages: >> Mar 26 04:22:53 shell /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted >> >> Now..when it crashes does it properly dismount / or no? No, it doesn't. But that's the least of your problems. >> I need any input i can get on this dreaded problem >> asap! > > It doesn't properly dismount when the system crashes or if power is > turned off. > Have you added anything new to the system That might be causing this ? > > I would Enable the kernel debugger. > There is also a remote to debug the kernel allthough it non-standard. It's better to enable dumping as described in the handbook. You need a debug kernel to make any sense of it, however. >> Do You Yahoo!? No. You'll have to reply from some other address. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message