From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 12:27:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA28464 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 12:27:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.dsu.edu (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu [138.247.32.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA28456 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 12:27:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ghelmer@localhost) by alpha.dsu.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA06675; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:27:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:27:45 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1 news server crashes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, I wrote: > Since upgrading our campus news server to FreeBSD 2.1, it has been > crashing every few days, and the system hasn't been able to come back up > by itself because of problems encountered by fsck. After the last crash, > I enabled savecore and set the dumpdev and this morning I have captured a > crash dump (the panic was "bad dir"). > ... A followup, for the record. I built a kernel with the "-g" option to config and installed it per the kernel debugging guide of the handbook, and now the server hasn't crashed in over two weeks (fingers crossed!). Perhaps I somehow corrupted the original kernel when I copied it between disks, or perhaps a few fsck's fixed the problematic partition. Thank you to everyone who replied with suggestions! Guy Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu