From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 23 21:46:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB2937B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 21:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBC043E3B for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 21:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8B162812D8; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 14:16:46 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 14:16:46 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: ivan_alb@agava.com, Patrick O'Reilly , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Panic = System crash 8 times in 4 days Message-ID: <20020824044646.GA87563@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <15718.14981.573727.965999@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <054301c24aae$6b99ed50$b50d030a@PATRICK> <3D6642A2.3040102@agava.com> <15718.17268.289160.923598@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3D664415.3040908@agava.com> <15718.17582.370143.817484@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15718.17582.370143.817484@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 23 August 2002 at 10:20:30 -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Ivan Albetkov writes: >> Andrew Gallatin wrote: >>> Ivan Albetkov writes: >>>> And don't care about gdbmods :). All you need to debug vinum is in >>>> man 4 vinum "Debugging problems with vinum: kernel panics" >>> >>> But its a PITA and only works for vinum. gdbmods works for _any_ >>> kernel module. >> I know. But it's very likely that all troubles caused by vinum, as i >> said before. And you said. > > Likely, but unknown for sure.. I've not seen a kldstat; who knows, he > might be loading a disk driver (which would plug in under > spec_strategy()). It's pretty clear at the moment that the backtrace we're talking about is in Vinum, so the kludge in the .gdbinit file would do. On the other hand, gdbmods looks a lot better, assuming that the "please wait" isn't indicative of extreme slowness. The script looks quite good; I don't suppose you have a /bin/sh version? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message