From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 18:29:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB93B106566C for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:29:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D7B8FC29 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:29:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A3AA1EBC3B; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:29:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:29:26 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "n j" Message-Id: <20080401142926.5c112197.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <92bcbda50804011123o3bef7918r6a5078e0fb171f0e@mail.gmail.com> References: <92bcbda50804010613p3cd927e4g4a3c3c7820a6a06e@mail.gmail.com> <002e01c893fd$2bb5e8d0$3202a8c0@glattwerk.local> <92bcbda50804010852s20e5d681y9d2d2a4cd9e9adea@mail.gmail.com> <20080401125119.f66c3e38.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <92bcbda50804011123o3bef7918r6a5078e0fb171f0e@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i386-portbld-freebsd6.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:29:41 -0000 In response to "n j" : > > I suspect you're going to have to get crash dumps in order to get > > any real answers: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html > > I already started digging through this part of handbook, though I'm > not sure I'll be able to read anything useful from the crash dump as > I'm no kernel programming expert. But, the next time the machine > crashes, dumpdev/dumpdir will hopefully do their part - we'll see. Even if it doesn't help you, it will provide details that you can post with your question so that people can help you more effectively. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com