From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 17:59: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932B237B424 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 17:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5137B6ACC0; Sun, 20 May 2001 10:28:48 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:28:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Marc Silver Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Taking processor dumps (was: Did FreeBSD crash or am I missing something?) Message-ID: <20010520102848.H75919@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010514204231.G351@draenor.org> <20010515110341.D59553@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010515075718.H351@draenor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010515075718.H351@draenor.org>; from marcs@draenor.org on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:57:18AM +0200 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Tuesday, 15 May 2001 at 7:57:18 +0200, Marc Silver wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> About the only way you can find out why a system like this resets is >> to enable dumping and take a look at the dump. > > Forgive my ignorance Greg, but how do I enable crash dumps? Could > you provide me more information, or a URL where I could find out > more? All I could find in the handbook was information on how to > get a crash dump for a kernel that doesn't boot up correctly, but > this isn't the problem here, as the machine was up for 14 days prior > to this reboot. Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html. That should tell you what you need, though it's a little cryptic. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message