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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2004 07:24:19 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eirik =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to find the cause of a hang
Message-ID:  <20040814215419.GF19643@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <26ECE35D-EDDB-11D8-945B-000D9335BCEC@anduin.net>
References:  <26ECE35D-EDDB-11D8-945B-000D9335BCEC@anduin.net>

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On Saturday, 14 August 2004 at 12:17:31 +0200, Eirik verby wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently experiencing frequent (about once per week) hangs of a
> server that is about 1500 kilometers away from me. I have a serial
> cable on the box, and using minicom on the neighbor box I am now in the
> kernel debugger - but I'm at a complete loss as to what to do to figure
> out what is, in fact, wrong.
>
> Calling panic or boot doesn't work - it just stops at "syncing
> disks..." and never actually reboots. I suspect something fishy going
> on with disk I/O, but I can't be certain of that.
> The box responds to ping - until I call panic or boot - but no other
> services are working.
>
> What can I do? I'm now at the db> prompt ... Help :)

Well, one possibility would be to debug online.  But dumping seems to
be broken on recent versions of -CURRENT--see my message on the topic
yesterday.  Try 'call doadump' instead of 'panic'.

Greg
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