From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 5 17:28:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22762 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22745; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:28:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01905; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808060026.RAA01905@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Brett Glass cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on the spontaneous crashes In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 17:06:16 MDT." <199808052306.RAA00494@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 17:26:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > As mentioned in earlier messages, we're still trying to do a backup and > getting a crash every time. Our backup routine works by creating a command > file which is redirected into FTP. The command that fails is > > put "|dump 0uf - /usr | gzip -9" usr.$starttime.gz > > (where $starttime is the starting time of the backup; it's replaced with a > numerical UNIX date as the command file is created). > > As you can see, FTP is accepting input from dump, via gzip, and sending it > to the named file on the other machine. This is done over a separate LAN > segment for security. > > The screen that flashes, just before the reboot, says that there was a GP > fault in the kernel. I can't print the screen or otherwise save it, and it > goes by very quickly -- faster than I can write down the information. (I've > considered grabbing a camera to take a picture.) > > How can we nail this bug and get it fixed? We need to do backups, and > Heaven knows that if this userland stuff causes a crash, other things will > too. Put 'options DDB' in your kernel config. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message