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From: Eric Brueggmann <brueggma@snoopie.yi.org>
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Subject: reboot.
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Ok.. This is getting a little wierd.  A user typed "quota" and the machine
rebooted.  Before I recompile the kernel as stated below, is anyone haveing
similar problems?  Typing "du" and "quota" reboot the machine.

						Eric B.

# uname -a
FreeBSD dsl-64-193-123-121.telocity.com 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0: Fri Oct 20 12:11:58 CDT 2000     root@dsl-64-193-123-121.telocity.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BEAST  i386

>On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Eric Brueggmann wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>>       I'm experiencing some more df problems.  I just typed "df -h" for the
>> second time in the past 2 days, and the machine rebooted.  No messages in the
>> logs, nothing.
>
>        That's really bad. Could you take a look at the instructions for
>setting up kernel debugging in the handbook (dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf*,
>etc.) and add the following to your kernel config:
>
># Add extra debugging information to the kernel
>options         DIAGNOSTIC
>
># The INVARIANTS option is used in a number of source files to enable
># extra sanity checking of internal structures.
>options         INVARIANTS
>options         INVARIANT_SUPPORT
>
># Kernel debugger
>options         DDB   
>
># Don't drop into DDB for a panic. Intended for unattended operation
># where you may want to drop to DDB from the console, but still want
># the machine to recover from a panic
>options         DDB_UNATTENDED
>
>The last option is only necessary if you are concerned about this
>happening when you are not at the console. It would actually be better to
>leave this out if you are going to have physical access to the machine.
>
>        Assuming that you can actually get information out of DDB, please
>send it to freebsd-stable@freebsd.org. I realize that this is a lot of
>work for you, but really it's the only way we can get the data we need to
>trace the problem. I alias df to 'df -h' on all my machines, running many
>vintages of RELENG_4 and RELENG_5, and I've never seen this panic, which
>is why I think the stack trace of a dead kernel is our only option here.
>
>Doug
>--
>        "The dead cannot be seduced."
>From igor_tomrli- Kai, "Lexx"
>
>        Do YOU Yahoo!?


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