From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 13:43:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680A237B404 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:43:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0ILYf714633; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:34:42 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A67614F.C37A10F1@mail.iowna.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:34:07 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Victor R. Cardona" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need advise References: <20010118144808.A550@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Victor R. Cardona" wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am still trying to diagnose mysterious lock ups on a 4.2-STABLE box > running IPFilter. I am pretty sure that it is a software probleim caused > by a strange interaction between IPF 3.4.8 and 4.2-STABLE. I am trying > to rule out hardware conflicts, and perhapstry to narrow down the > possible causes for the lock-ups before I submit a PR. Does anyone have > any advise on how I might do that. Also, would submitting a PR even do > any good considering the total lack of error messages? Compile both the kernel and IPFilter with debugging symbols. Are you getting panics? If there are *.core files, use those to analyze the crash. If not, follow the instructions in the handbook to debug the crash via serial port. Try running IPFilter in verbose mode if it has it, possibly it can be compiled with debugging output. Mainly, gather as much info as possible before submitting a PR, it'll get things fixed faster. Good luck, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message