From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 4 13:29:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA9E16A420 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:29:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CCA43D45 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:29:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com) Received: from [70.60.100.13] (rrcs-70-60-100-13.midsouth.biz.rr.com [70.60.100.13]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k24DTJNh000559 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 08:29:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <44099646.3050504@carolina.rr.com> Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:29:42 -0500 From: Alexander Mayfield User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060304) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: What do I do with a kernel panic's dump? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:29:21 -0000 Right, so I've got my 6.0-RELEASE up and running, and I'm slowly, but surely getting it configured how I like it. 80x50 console, all my favorite programs, life is quite good. However, just recently, when browsing the web, the kernel panicked on me. I was currently just browsing the web in Opera, doing a portsmanager -u in the my second console, with centericq running in 7 and irssi in 8. Since I was in X at the time, I had no idea what it was doing until it rebooted itself. When I rebooted, I found out that it had made a few files in my /var/crash/ directory, how thoughtful. The shorter of the two files read like the following: Dump header from device /dev/ad1s2b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 1072234496B (1022 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Sat Mar 4 07:27:20 2006 Hostname: alexmax.localdomain Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Panic String: vm_page_insert: page already inserted Dump Parity: 3300035405 Bounds: 0 Dump Status: good The other one was quite large, so I will not bore you with the details unless you need them. However, from there, I have no clue what to do with the dumps.. I now ask where should I start looking for problems...or perhaps what information should I give you? Also, while I'm at it, I'm having a few niggling problems with FreeBSD that are bugging me. 1. In certain programs, such as irssi, my alt key does not work. If I run irssi within an aterm, the alt-number combinations work fine. However, if I am using a console, doing alt-number does not work, and instead I must use the Escape key. How do I fix this? 2. My Delete key exhibits similar strange behavior, except instead of doing nothing, it sometimes acts like a backspace key. Thank you in advance. In spite of my troubles, I'm finding my experience with FreeBSD most satisfactory. :) -Alex