Date: 04 Mar 2006 08:39:39 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Alexander Mayfield <alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What do I do with a kernel panic's dump? Message-ID: <44lkvqcoro.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44099646.3050504@carolina.rr.com> References: <44099646.3050504@carolina.rr.com>
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Alexander Mayfield <alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com> writes: > 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? Take a look at the FAQ entry titled "How can I make the most of the data I see when my kernel panics?"
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