Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:29:41 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: BarryFriedman@www1.emax.ca Cc: bfriedman@emax.ca, freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server reboots at random :-( Message-ID: <20080618212941.GM89661@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20080618162900.GA70649@emax.ca> References: <20080618162900.GA70649@emax.ca>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:29:00PM -0400, BarryFriedman@www1.emax.ca wrote:
> Any ideas about how to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated.
Start with enabling crash dumps to see if it is a kernel issue or
a hardware issue:
In /etc/rc.conf:
dumpdev="AUTO"
dumpdir="/usr/crash"
The second reboot will take muuuuch longer because it is saving
this, but it gives some information to start with.
See also
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
and following.
Edwin
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