From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 13:56:42 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 65FF31065670 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 13:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599128FC1B for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 13:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 179221CC05B; Tue, 6 May 2008 06:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 06:56:42 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Stephen Clark Message-ID: <20080506135642.GA10543@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <4819BB3A.6000407@earthlink.net> <481A16E7.8040709@earthlink.net> <20080501210233.GA15528@lava.net> <481B19C4.1040806@earthlink.net> <20080506125938.GA8831@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4820618F.3070009@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4820618F.3070009@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reboot after panic 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: Tue, 06 May 2008 13:56:42 -0000 On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:47:59AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: >>> Mine is a nvidia 6300 mb with a dual core amd processor. I am causing the panic >>> while trying to develope a DD for a EVDO usb modem - so it is not a great >>> problem - I was just surprised it wasn't rebooting. This is a 6.1 system. >>> >>> Yes it is sort of discouraging that it is hard to get answers when you >>> aren't running the latest and greatest kernel. In our case we have over >>> 500 units in >>> the field running a mix of 4.9 and 6.1 and it is not feasible to >>> continually upgrade them, especially since there is no documented way to >>> reliably upgrade >>> a remote installation. >> >> Does the system reboot OK if you issue the "reboot" command? >> >> If not, then the problem is likely with the reboot method being used >> (ACPI vs. non-ACPI) or ACPI tweakage prior to reboot, and not anything >> to do with panics. See the following two sysctls: >> >> hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot >> hw.acpi.handle_reboot > > It reboots fine when I "shutdown -r now". It is only after a panic > that it hangs. I have it set to save the crash dump: > dumpdev="AUTO" # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO, or NO). > dumpdir="/var/crash" # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored > > but there is never one. It is like it hangs trying to dump the memory image. > > This mother board has both sata and pata controllers but I am using only pata > drives. A kernel panic causes the kernel to dump all memory contents (from start to end) to whatever swap device is available. It's written to the disk in a fairly "raw" format, with some header data of some sort I think. After it's done, the system should reboot. My guess is that you either don't have any swap defined, swap is defined incorrectly (disklabel -r output would be useful), or your swap space is smaller than your total amount of memory. (Swap should usually be 2x RAM). dumpdir and dumpdev are used during the startup process, where savecore(8) is called. The memory dump on the swap device is extracted and stored in a file in $dumpdir, which you can examine later. Keep in mind that savecore(8) will use /dev/dumpdev, which is a symlink to whatever device your swap lives on -- and that's determined by reading /etc/fstab. Does this help? :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |