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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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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:24:33PM +0000, Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> 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!
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> a) first time, with 5.3-RELEASE. Nothing changed about the kernel or base=
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> 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=
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> response to keyboard nor network.
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> b) the second one, this morning with 5.3-STABLE. It was downloading libxs=
lt=20
> and, at 13 percent, the system went frozen.
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> 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=
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> incidents, and I'd like to have a clue about what's wrong with FreeBSD an=
d my=20
> machine.
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> Ideas?

See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook.

Kris


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