From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 14:26:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.jadeb.com (mailgate.jadeb.com [62.49.93.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B0C337B40E for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 14:26:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jadeb.com (firewall.jadeb.com [192.168.254.2]) by mailgate.jadeb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CED946D37 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 22:29:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nettle by jadeb.com with local (RemoteNB 1.54beta1) for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; 21 May 2002 22:26:21 +0000 Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:26:20 GMT From: Daniel Barron To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: After 170 days uptime, now reboots every few hours Message-ID: References: <20020518202133.74BBE5D88@server3.safepages.com> <3CE6CFCA.889BEAF6@mrincubator.org> <0302ca384b.nettle@jadeb.com> <20020519131828.E64761@mars.thuis> In-Reply-To: <20020519131828.E64761@mars.thuis> X-Organization: Jades Domain User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/2.60 (RemoteNB/1.54beta1) (RISC-OS/4.27) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020519131828.E64761@mars.thuis> Axel Scheepers wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:25:00PM +0000, Daniel Barron wrote: > > Back to the original question; what tools exist on FBSD to diagnose where > > the fault may lie (mb, hd, ram, cpu, etc)? > Hi Daniel, > > Although it will take some trouble the best way to debug it will be > to recompile the kernel with -g and enable the kernel debuuger. > Most of these small boards will have a serial interface so you can > hook up a debug terminal. Problem might be the hdd, since a debug kernel > is a bit bigger then normal, you might consider setting up a tfpt server > to make testing with it easy. > Then, whenever it hangs, you'll probably be able to do a backtrace to see > where things go wrong. Although I've recompiled many a kernel on Linux I've never looked into doing such a thing on FBSD. That information certainly might prove useful in the future though. I wanted to diagnose it so that I could send it back to the supplier as its still in the 1 year guarantee and tell them the fault. -- Daniel Barron (Visit http://dansguardian.org/ - True web content filtering for all) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message