From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 27 22:12:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9262D16A4CF for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:12:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C07943D1F for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:12:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BBD3C511AE; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:10:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:10:35 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Troy Bowman Message-ID: <20041227221035.GA98895@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1104184365.16903.29.camel@gargamel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1104184365.16903.29.camel@gargamel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: am64/FreeBSD-5.3-STABLE (or RELEASE) crashes often X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:12:02 -0000 --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:52:45PM -0700, Troy Bowman wrote: > And it doesn't dump its core to its dump swap space, too, so I can't run > savecore after reboot to get debugging info. I have the swap space in > fstab commented out so it won't come up at boot to be able to manually > harvest the core, as it gives "savecore: no dumps found." (it doesn't > happen automatically, either).=20 Please double-check that you're running 'dumpon'. If you don't configure swap at boot time, it won't be run automatically by the boot scripts. > Hardware that it is running on is a Tyan s2875 with dual amd64/246 > processors, and 2 GB Registered DDR RAM (Corsair). We're also running > vinum for all of the filesystems, mirroring them all, including the root > filesystem. The vinum is using two SATA WD Raptors. I have one older > IDE drive plugged in to capture the kernel dumps. =20 There's an erratum for vinum in 5.3. > What can I do to debug this more if I can't harvest the kernel dumps to > report a bug? See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook, available on the website. It takes you through how to configure your kernel with support for the debugger, and how to obtain minimal information from it when you encounter a panic. You might like to first update to FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE in case the bugs are already fixed. > Is there anything the FreeBSD team can do? Perhaps, once you have the above information. Also report it to the freebsd-amd64 mailing list. Kris --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB0IhbWry0BWjoQKURAu3/AKDfyRBiIFTtQeMLVeyhGk/IYjJyMACg91l0 hOKSEwQqYe0wMCPuw1bX0yc= =Su5m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh--