Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:38:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: hometeam <hometeam@techpower.net>, Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Crashing Every 2 Days!! Message-ID: <19990328103806.P53452@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903261543250.10489-100000@techpower.net>; from hometeam on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 03:52:25PM -0500 References: <19990326201242.18659.rocketmail@web114.yahoomail.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903261543250.10489-100000@techpower.net>
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[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
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