From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 21:33:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D404B16A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:33:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.mc.surewest.net (smtp2.mc.surewest.net [66.60.130.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A40A443D46 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:33:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dislists@updegrove.net) Received: (s3-12424); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:33:37 -0800 Received: from unknown (HELO updegrove.net) (64.30.97.117) by smtp2.mc.surewest.net (s3-smtpd/0.90-beta3) with SMTP; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:33:36 -0800 Received: (qmail 5102 invoked by uid 98); 12 Jan 2005 21:34:28 -0000 Received: from dislists@updegrove.net by smeagol.skynet by uid 1008 with qmail-scanner-1.22-st-qms (f-prot: 4.4.8/3.14.13. Clear:RC:1(64.166.46.10):. Processed in 2.75116 secs); 12 Jan 2005 21:34:27 -0000 X-Antivirus-RickUp-Mail-From: dislists@updegrove.net via smeagol.skynet X-Antivirus-RickUp: 1.22-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(64.166.46.10):. Processed in 2.75116 secs Process 5092) Received: from adsl-64-166-46-10.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net (HELO ?192.168.0.44?) (64.166.46.10) by updegrove.net with SMTP; 12 Jan 2005 21:34:24 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.300 [265.6.11]); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:36:09 -0800 Message-ID: <41E59844.6000805@updegrove.net> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:36:04 -0800 From: Rick Updegrove User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <41E36760.2090609@updegrove.net> <44fz18m5k4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44fz18m5k4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TST: smtp2.mc.surewest.net SNWK3 0.31-80 ip=64.30.97.117 Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE crashes during make buildworld (and other problems) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:33:37 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > That should be "dumpdir", not "DUMPDIR". > The default would be /var/crash instead of /usr/crash. > Also, /dev/ad0s1b has to be bigger than your RAM size. Thank you very much for the reply Lowell, That DUMPDIR was silly of me, thank you for pointing it out. I have 1.5 GIGS of RAM and /var is 248 MEGS which is self-explanatory. > You can try to analyze the panic messages themselves. > There is some guidance for this in the FAQ. The guidence I read at in the developer's handbook suggests I obtain a crashdump and post to the list because the info found in a panic (example of one of mine below) is not enough. Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x4d fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc061c642 stack pointer = 0x10:0xf00e1cc4 frame pointer = 0x10:0xf00e1cd0 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL - 0 current process = 1009 (kdeinit) trap number = 12 panic: page fault Uptime: 21m8s So, I am still trying to obtain a dump. Thanks to your reply, I did re-read #KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING more carefully and I did try the following. rickup@nothing$ nm -n /boot/kernel | grep c061c642 nm: Warning: '/boot/kernel' is not an ordinary file Any ideas on that? The reason I did not try that first was I mistakenly thought I had to first capture the crash dump for some reason. > Hardware problems would be my first suspicion here. Me too... if it were not for the fact 5.3-RELEASE is the only OS that has problems on this hardware. > If you try it again, does it fail in the same place? No it does not fail in the same place every time but I still do not suspect hardware per se. For more details on why I believe that statement, please see: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-January/011034.html Thanks again for the reply it was helpful. Rick