From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 17 16:16:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 CADCE16A400 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:16:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A617213C45B for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:16:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3832175F3 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:16:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:16:20 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: DCkLOxOZROalVnciLWq7ReFK1Bu21WGjGwBH0n4bT0GM 1176826580 Received: from [10.1.10.136] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB4F1110C for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:16:20 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: questions@freebsd.org From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:16:17 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: Subject: Identifying cause of crash 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: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:16:20 -0000 I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after 17/ Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash. It's just that a few hours later I noticed that the system was down, and had to power cycle the box. There was nothing on the console except some much older stuff. I'm running 6.2-RELEASE-p3 on VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Looking in messages or auth.log I see nothing from around the time of the crash. Is there some place else I should look? I've also checked logs that are sysloged remotely $ grep '@10' /etc/syslog.conf *.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit @10.1.10.131 security.* @10.1.10.131 auth.info;authpriv.info @10.1.10.131 *.emerg @10.1.10.131 And there is nothing from near the time of the crash there either. So the system appeared to crash before anything could be logged. The system has been running fine since I've had it (a few months ago), and my most recent kernel rebuild was on April 13 (and then only to add msdosfs which I needed for USB memory devices). Where should I look next? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/