Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:50:53 -0500 From: Alexander Mayfield <alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What do I do with a kernel panic's dump? Message-ID: <4409EF9D.90107@carolina.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <44lkvqcoro.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <44099646.3050504@carolina.rr.com> <44lkvqcoro.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Alexander Mayfield <alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com> writes: > >> Right, so I've got my 6.0-RELEASE up and running, and I'm slowly, but >> surely getting it configured how I like it. 80x50 console, all my >> favorite programs, life is quite good. >> >> However, just recently, when browsing the web, the kernel panicked on >> me. I was currently just browsing the web in Opera, doing a >> portsmanager -u in the my second console, with centericq running in 7 >> and irssi in 8. Since I was in X at the time, I had no idea what it >> was doing until it rebooted itself. When I rebooted, I found out that >> it had made a few files in my /var/crash/ directory, how thoughtful. >> The shorter of the two files read like the following: >> >> Dump header from device /dev/ad1s2b >> Architecture: i386 >> Architecture Version: 2 >> Dump Length: 1072234496B (1022 MB) >> Blocksize: 512 >> Dumptime: Sat Mar 4 07:27:20 2006 >> Hostname: alexmax.localdomain >> Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump >> Version String: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 >> root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC >> Panic String: vm_page_insert: page already inserted >> Dump Parity: 3300035405 >> Bounds: 0 >> Dump Status: good >> >> The other one was quite large, so I will not bore you with the details >> unless you need them. However, from there, I have no clue what to do >> with the dumps.. I now ask where should I start looking for >> problems...or perhaps what information should I give you? > > Take a look at the FAQ entry titled "How can I make the most of the > data I see when my kernel panics?" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I took a look at the FAQ. Where can I find the instruction pointer? I could not actually see the actual dump, as it happened while I was in X, and all I'm left with is the contents of /var/crash/ -Alex
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