From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 22:46:36 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 EA61B16A4CF for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:46:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB1743D41 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:46:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F1AA55145A; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:46:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:46:35 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa Message-ID: <20050117224635.GB31463@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200501172024.33667.imobachgs@banot.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QKdGvSO+nmPlgiQ/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501172024.33667.imobachgs@banot.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System crashes... what now? 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: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:46:37 -0000 --QKdGvSO+nmPlgiQ/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:24:33PM +0000, Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa wrote: >=20 > Hi all, >=20 > I'm a newbie in the FreeBSD thing, and I'm having some problems that I'd = like=20 > to track down as far as possible. In four days using FreeBSD, my machine = has=20 > crashed two times, ugh! >=20 > a) first time, with 5.3-RELEASE. Nothing changed about the kernel or base= =20 > system. Just I leave the system alone compiling some stuff (like X.org) a= ll=20 > night and, next day, the system has been crashed: no video output and no= =20 > response to keyboard nor network. >=20 > b) the second one, this morning with 5.3-STABLE. It was downloading libxs= lt=20 > and, at 13 percent, the system went frozen. >=20 > My question is: after the system has crashed, what can I do? I mean, wher= e can=20 > I look for clues about what happened? Log files shows nothing about the= =20 > incidents, and I'd like to have a clue about what's wrong with FreeBSD an= d my=20 > machine. >=20 > Ideas? See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook. Kris --QKdGvSO+nmPlgiQ/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB7EBLWry0BWjoQKURAv5EAJ4lhiZ1NMiFjNoBossjlMMOvc3bzwCeNQxo VRs/NG709E8DhXyPcibhShs= =IG1h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QKdGvSO+nmPlgiQ/--