From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 15:24:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D3D16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.mc.surewest.net (smtp1.mc.surewest.net [66.60.130.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 363D943D49 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:24:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rick@updegrove.net) Received: (s3-22309); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:23:34 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO updegrove.net) (64.30.97.117) by smtp1.mc.surewest.net (s3-smtpd/0.90-beta3) with SMTP; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:23:31 -0700 Received: (qmail 31200 invoked by uid 98); 15 Apr 2004 22:24:44 -0000 Received: from rick@updegrove.net by smeagol.purgatory by uid 1008 with qmail-scanner-1.20 Clear:RC:1(64.166.46.10):. 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X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:24:47 -0000 Rick Updegrove wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Are you sure that nothing is displayed on the system console before it >> reboots? Hooking up a serial console can be a good way to catch this. > > > Finally! No serial console but it is crashing right now (with the > updated BIOS installed) and I see it is dumping to the dumpdev and the > screen is filling up with stuff :) > > So.. I will RTFM at the URL below a couple of times and see if I can't > get you guys something useful ASAP. > >>>> When you encounter a panic, the useful >>>> thing to do is to obtain a debugging traceback, as described in the >>>> developers handbook. >>>> >>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html By the way thanks again for all the help, everyone, especially Kris. I read all about kernel debugging last night and today and I decided to make things easier (I hope) I rebuilt today with a fresh GENERIC kernel and only enabled the following options: makeoptions DEBUG=-g #Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O Now I will wait for it to crash. When it does crash, I am supposed to watch for the "Instruction pointer" according to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING Since that is next to impossible to see that unless I sit in the freezing cold server room and stare at the monitor until it crashes and hurry up and write it down I am wondering if that is logged anywhere? Also, I still can't figure out what RAID controller I actually have so I am not going to upgrade the firmware/drivers unless this crash dump post-mortem analysis says I should. What do you think? The following URLs list all the available upgrades for RAID controllers but dmesg says: amr0: mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff irq 16 at device 7.1 on pci0 amr0: Firmware D.02.05, BIOS B.01.04, 16MB RAM amrd0: on amr0 amrd0: 34708MB (71081984 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) I just don't see that listed here: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?locale=en_US&pnameOID=15389&taskId=135&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=50448&lang=en&cc=us&swEnvOID=54#1158 I even looked at http://www.lsilogic.com/downloads/selectDownload.do but I don't see a Integrated HP NetRAID (T5) or a LSILogic MegaRAID listed there either. Does anyone actually run FreeBSD 4.x on an HP LH3? Does anyone know what I should download and install? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rick P.S. I tried to install ddd but ===> ddd-3.3.8 depends on executable: gcc32 - not found and gcc32 fails to compile for me. If I get time I will post details on the posts list, if anyone thinks it might be more useful than gdb. Please advise.