Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:09:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@calvin.math.vt.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new 2.2.5 installation randomly (and constantly) panics Message-ID: <19980222120905.35825@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980221202539.15260@math.vt.edu>; from matthew c. mead on Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 08:25:39PM -0500 References: <19980221202539.15260@math.vt.edu>
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On Sat, 21 February 1998 at 20:25:39 -0500, matthew c. mead wrote: > I've got a newly installed 2.2.5 system which was running 2.1.7 up until > this morning that's panic'ing every 10 minutes or so, without indication > as to why. All of a sudden, the machine reboots. There's nothing in > the log files, and nothing showing up on the console. How can I go > about finding out what the problem is and correcting it? I've enabled > the savecore functionality - how do I go about looking at those files to > figure out what's happening? Are you getting core dump files? If so, check out http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook266.html. This should also be on your system as /usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook266.html if you installed the online handbook. > Additionally, is there something I might not know about with 2.2.5 > that could be causing this? Help! Thanks! Possibly. It's impossible to tell without knowing the panic string. Certainly this is the first we've heard of this sudden a change from 2.1.7 to 2.2.5. Are you sure you haven't changed *anything* in the hardware configuration? Do you have any unusual hardware connected? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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