From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 9 6:48:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [208.140.99.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E7937B41A for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 06:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01008475pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.200.215]) by sumter.awod.com (8.8.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id JAA78926 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 09:48:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16ZYo4-0008RO-00 for ; Sat, 09 Feb 2002 09:48:48 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 09:48:48 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: kernel panic! Message-ID: <20020209144848.GB32331@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list References: <20020209003006.GA19596@teddy.fas.com> <20020209153624.A2159@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020209153624.A2159@grimoire.chen.org.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 09:39:45 up 5 days, 15:15, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 03:36:24PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:30:06PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > With nothing but the basic filesystems (/ /usr /var) mounted, if I run > > "perodic daily" my machine crahse, reliably! It's a jernel trap 12, if > > I caught the message that flashed by on the screen corectly. > > > > How can I trap exactly wat's crashing this machine? > > Why don't you run a kernel build, if that crashes your machine as > well, I'd suspect h/w problems; probably memory. Make buildworld, and buildkernel run without triggering this panic. How can I further diagnose this problem? Isn't there a way to force the system to stop when it panics, and give me some details of what made it panic? At present, it just reboots and I can't catch much of the error message. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message