From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 01:53:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D181065679 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:53:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CEC8FC12 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:53:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so7138982rvf.43 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:53:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=/Ic7PwRyvvm5gnHDH7PD4SdH8vhu5j2Cf2zeteOHgj4=; b=gIZ+bEpg+oJVdCIrnQwQhSP2s5aWIvDVG6Jv2w0uKMR0BW++Jl3tPkJ+BaQEPcX/7g l0jaQ0WfAy5BCff2v/BVyWJcFMMRXxrCAMvjiWI/c0EYj2m2NU69L/EtGAWkg6Jdkrtz JkMC0vTJLdBCWufnzT4BQK1mrKBVHY7Oi3mNs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=r3+kIEBec9/tyy7uiv7vGHgpIC2hX6ors73Ez2zNkn71gDwI15fnsGRwO98Mip1Akc iRTkWNM580jagf1DhW3Ba3cjrKWZwIWMWArtGd/9BURi+9vXOn4g2YGAs7d0hBvpgVue Y8TnTk1p8WLoEByzd40oiiYWt+sAM4+wGOJhc= Received: by 10.140.161.11 with SMTP id j11mr816326rve.134.1216257954174; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:25:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.225.1 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:25:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47d0403c0807161825m45bff8d7w41eca673315e77d4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:25:54 -0400 From: "Ben Kaduk" To: "Jo Rhett" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: how to get more logging from GEOM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 17 Jul 2008 01:53:18 -0000 On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Jul 11, 2008, at 4:48 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: >> >> You can try going into the kernel debugger to see where it is hanging. >> Debugging via a serial cable is also very easy. >> I don't know the details, but there is a lot of info in the Freebsd >> handbook. Put this in google 'freebsd handbook kernel debug'. > > > Thanks for the reply. I'm familiar with these options, but as the system is > currently running GENERIC and trying to compile a kernel would guarantee to > cause the problem to occur... I could probably keep hacking at it until I > finally get everything compiled, but... > > Ugh. I guess this option doesn't appeal very much. Are there any other > options available? > You don't need to compile the kernel on the same machine that you use it on -- you can copy the compiled kernel into /boot/kernel.new -Ben Kaduk