From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 21 17:39:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25045 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:39:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25038 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:39:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA06206; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:09:06 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA05697; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:09:06 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980222120905.35825@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:09:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "matthew c. mead" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new 2.2.5 installation randomly (and constantly) panics References: <19980221202539.15260@math.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19980221202539.15260@math.vt.edu>; from matthew c. mead on Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 08:25:39PM -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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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