From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 22:32:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1386F37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A818543F93 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:32:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 98F7272DD1; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:32:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 942F972DD0; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:32:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:32:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Harald Schmalzbauer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030715223048.C21327@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 05:32:09 -0000 On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > I'm experimenting with 5.1-REL for some weeks and during that time I had > some mysterious hangs which I didn't take serious because I modified > /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c to support my CF-Card-Reader. > But now I saw exactly the same problem on my brand new (and cosidered by > hardware extremely different) fileserver. > > The machine freezes for about one minute and then reboots itself withut any > error message. Sounds like its panicking and making a crashdump. Do you have console access? Can you perhaps compile with 'options DDB' and get on the console when it dies? If it worked right you should see the panic message and have a db> prompt. > It happens when I do a "/stand/sysinstall" or a "sysctl -a" If this is an i386 machine, I'd begin to suspect bad memory. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org