From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 22:21:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E97C16A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:21:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.celeritystorm.com (mail.celeritystorm.com [213.247.62.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374C243D31 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:21:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from user@celeritystorm.com) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (unknown [81.84.175.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.celeritystorm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A070A3D74AD for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:19:41 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41FD5D40.8000509@celeritystorm.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:18:40 +0000 From: - User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41FD2EDF.2040503@celeritystorm.com> <20050130211820.GA14064@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050130211820.GA14064@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 5.3-STABLE not saving panics ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:21:02 -0000 I don't see savecore being run on boot. I manually ran it and it said: savecore: No dumps found. The panics are something along panic: ain't going nowhere without my init! (I'm forcing these by sending lots of unknown signals to init) The other (real) panics are random (process-wise). I don't have much more info about these as I never get to see the server screen and they're not being logged.. Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:00:47PM +0000, - wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >>I Have a server that keeps panicking when under some load, and I need to >>understand where the problem is. I've built a kernel with makeoptions >>DEBUG=-g, DDB, DDB_UNATTENDED. I've added dumpdev="/dev/ad3s1b" to >>rc.conf. But still, whenever it panicks, nothing will be logged to >>/var/log/messages (my 5.2.1-RELEASE workstation also logs panics there) >>and most important nothing will be in /var/crash/ .. >> >>I can confirm it is indeed panicking because a friend brought the server >>from the datacenter to his home and we are testing it. I can easily make >>it panic by killing init, but even these will not be dumped to /var/crash/ >> >>Have I missed something obvious ? >> >> > >Is savecore being run at boot time? > >What is displayed on the console when the system panics? > >Kris > >