Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:46:35 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa <imobachgs@banot.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System crashes... what now? Message-ID: <20050117224635.GB31463@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200501172024.33667.imobachgs@banot.net> References: <200501172024.33667.imobachgs@banot.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:24:33PM +0000, Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm a newbie in the FreeBSD thing, and I'm having some problems that I'd like > to track down as far as possible. In four days using FreeBSD, my machine has > crashed two times, ugh! > > a) first time, with 5.3-RELEASE. Nothing changed about the kernel or base > system. Just I leave the system alone compiling some stuff (like X.org) all > night and, next day, the system has been crashed: no video output and no > response to keyboard nor network. > > b) the second one, this morning with 5.3-STABLE. It was downloading libxslt > and, at 13 percent, the system went frozen. > > My question is: after the system has crashed, what can I do? I mean, where can > I look for clues about what happened? Log files shows nothing about the > incidents, and I'd like to have a clue about what's wrong with FreeBSD and my > machine. > > Ideas? See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB7EBLWry0BWjoQKURAv5EAJ4lhiZ1NMiFjNoBossjlMMOvc3bzwCeNQxo VRs/NG709E8DhXyPcibhShs= =IG1h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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