From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 20 16:31:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3200D16A4CE for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 16:31:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9546C43D9E for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 16:31:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IGS00F4MX3IUS20@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 20:38:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dsa.des.no ([80.203.228.37]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IGS00JDFRELB730@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 18:35:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dsa.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id D26B345165; Fri, 20 May 2005 18:31:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xps.des.no (xps.des.no [10.0.0.12]) by dsa.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id D16F745131; Fri, 20 May 2005 18:31:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AAA4A33C1C; Fri, 20 May 2005 18:31:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 18:31:18 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) In-reply-to: <16574.1116603542@www14.gmx.net> To: Aurel Bodenmann Message-id: <86ekc1dfl5.fsf@xps.des.no> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on dsa.des.no References: <16574.1116603542@www14.gmx.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kgdb doesn't seem to work, says "Cannot read PTD" X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:31:29 -0000 "Aurel Bodenmann" writes: > My FreeBSD box is giving me quite a hard time, it panics from time to > time (normally after a few days uptime), I suspect it has something > to do with this cheap SATA controller I'm using (Promise SATA150 > TX4). The SATA150 TX4 is not cheap, at least not in the "poor quality" sense of the word. > . Anyway, I wanted to locate the problem and do something about > it (aka submit an useful coredump to this list :-) but unfortunately > neither gdb nor kgdb seem to work for me. Well, thank you for trying! In the meantime, could you post the panic message and backtrace, or at least the contents of /var/crash/info.1? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no