Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:28:34 -0600 (CST) From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9902092128100.4845-100000@isis.visi.com> In-Reply-To: <199902100227.SAA02049@dingo.cdrom.com>
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I posted such a message a few days ago. Saturday I believe. Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > The next time the machine rebooted, I happened to have a video display > > connected to it and I happened to be nearbuy, and I saw the error > > message 'page fault in kernel mode" (or something similar). I had to > > run elsewhere while this was going on, so I missed the display during > > the filesystem sync and reboot that followed. > > Ack. The details associated with the pagefault in conjunction with > your kernel would be critical in tracking this down. > > > BTW, SunOS does not require crash dumps to be enabled in order to find > > out the reason for the crash. SunOS logs a kernel backtrace into > > /var/log/messages after each panic. I don't think FreeBSD does. It > > would be nice if the panic message and a stack dump could be saved > > whether or not a full crash dump is being saved. > > FreeBSD tries to save the kernel message buffer over reboots, but your > BIOS may be overwriting these. For obvious reasons, you can't expect > to be able to write to the filesystem after a panic, and in some cases > dumps can't be performed because the disk code is dead... > > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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