From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 16:32:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F1AD37B40C for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 38332 invoked by uid 100); 15 Oct 2001 23:32:25 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15307.29193.450779.86840@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:32:25 -0500 To: Paul English Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silent reboots - how to troubleshoot In-Reply-To: <43669227@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Paul English types: > Hi, > I'm looking for some general newbie-to-freebsd-but-not-UNIX > instructions on how to troublshoot silent reboots. FreeBSD 4.2 - 4.4 It's on the web site: > They are happening quite frequently on production machines and it > is very embarrasing. How do I convince the kernel to dump core (and > where do I find it when it happens)? Where can I locate people capable of > analyzing said cores? The kernel debugging doc should help you get a core file, and help you analyze it to the point where you can email us the function it blew up in, and the exact line where it croaked along with the panic message. Any competent C programmer should be able to help you from there. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message