From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 15 19:50:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AE637B41D for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 19:50:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22777; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 20:49:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 20:49:11 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" To: Sam Drinkard Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Determining Crash cause? Message-ID: <20011215204911.E22667@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <3C1B2681.2E507732@vortex.wa4phy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C1B2681.2E507732@vortex.wa4phy.net>; from sam@wa4phy.net on Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 05:31:29AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 05:31:29AM -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > Is there any known method to determine the cause of a crash > when there is no panic, no log entries, or other evidence? > Thought my wierdness about nightly crashes disapeared when I > moved to -Stable, but I see its back. About the only thing > that changed from a previously very stable system was the fact > that I started using different fonts for netscape via the xfstt > and xfs font servers. Hints anyone? Build a kernel with debugging, connect a terminal (or pc running Hyperterm or some other equivelant) to a serial port on the FreeBSD box, configure for console port, set the Hyperterm to log and then wait for the next crash. See if anything useful is captured in the log. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message