Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:50:00 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: bfriedman@emax.ca, BarryFriedman@www1.emax.ca, freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server reboots at random :-( Message-ID: <20080620074959.GO89289@evil.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <20080618212941.GM89661@k7.mavetju> References: <20080618162900.GA70649@emax.ca> <20080618212941.GM89661@k7.mavetju>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:29:41AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:29:00PM -0400, BarryFriedman@www1.emax.ca wrote: > > Any ideas about how to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated. > > Start with enabling crash dumps to see if it is a kernel issue or > a hardware issue: > > In /etc/rc.conf: > > dumpdev="AUTO" > dumpdir="/usr/crash" > > The second reboot will take muuuuch longer because it is saving > this, but it gives some information to start with. > > See also > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html > and following. > You might also want to setup virtual serial and enable console on serial. Then you can use conserver to log anything and check after a reboot. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
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