From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 00:42:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA23622 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA23617 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA09962; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:42:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:42:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Behlendorf cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tracing a crash In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971111092513.008d47b0@hyperreal.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > My heavily-used FreeBSD box had been up for a month before it froze up last > night. I wasn't on at the time and don't have a clue as to what could have > caused it, but I'd like to find out. There's nothing special in > /var/log/messages (I'm logging syslog messages of type > "*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;*.crit;*.err;deamon.*" to it) and nothing > special in /var/crash. What are some other steps I can take to figure out > what may have caused the crash? After the fact and without dumps turned on, you're kinda stuck. If you're ever around when it locks up check the console and see if it panic'd. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major