From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 18:12:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1A416A46C for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:12:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BAB313C4B7 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:12:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64591A3C19; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [192.168.1.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDAE511B4; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:12:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A2DF7C204; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:12:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:12:54 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Zbigniew Szalbot Message-ID: <20070604181254.GA28548@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <4664392E.1030409@szalbot.homedns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4664392E.1030409@szalbot.homedns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: total system freeze - where to look for more information 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: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:12:55 -0000 On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:09:18PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Dear all, > > Today - for the first time ever - I have a total system freeze. It > occured after 105 days of uninterrupted work. The freeze was > unrecoverable because even though I attached a screen to the machine, I > was not able to do anything with it. I had to hard-reboot it. > > dmesg.today has just one line (and dmesg.yestarday is empty). > > pid 25536 (portmanager), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) > > This file was modified at night so it does not contain any useful > information. > > Where can I look for more information? The only thing that comes to my > mind is that today I installed denyhosts-2.6. > > It is possible that the > freeze occured during dump operation which is done to a network drive > mounted via mount_nfs option. > > FreeBSD lists.lc-words.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan > 22 12:52:41 CET 2007 root@192.168.11.51:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LISTS i386 > > Many thanks in advance! See the developers handbook chapter on kernel debugging