Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:36:08 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.org> To: Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Total crash in gdb!.. something is broken!.. Was: Re: FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC? Message-ID: <1ADF7CA0-B8C5-47FF-9C28-C649D5B13ECE@stromnet.org> In-Reply-To: <c21e92e20609242344q2d8258c2t4cf5c0d2fb7cb107@mail.gmail.com> References: <C8AEA7B4-3E12-43A7-A618-F35E74C1511C@stromnet.org> <118EDA90-D7D7-4A07-B7D2-3710384308D1@stromnet.org> <D5A683ED-67D0-4E2E-BE0C-E34812F9B52E@stromnet.org> <955CD271-C649-4423-848C-42912C5134A2@stromnet.org> <c21e92e20609242344q2d8258c2t4cf5c0d2fb7cb107@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sep 25, 2006, at 08:45 , Jiawei Ye wrote:
> On 9/25/06, Johan Ström <johan@stromnet.org> wrote:
>> Fcking great.. Waking up and noting that the box has rebooted it self
>> during the night... Yay!!... No kernel dumps, nothing in message
>> log.. Nada... (this was on the "first" box, that is the one first in
>> this thread)
>>
>> What exactly does
>>
>> kernel dumps on /dev/mirror/gm0s1b
>>
>> mean? Not that it saves any kernel dumps at least.. But otoh I have
>> no clue why it crashed at all and if it even did try to dump kernel
>> or if it just blacked out as when i tried to debug clamd...
>>
>> --
>> Johan
> It means that the system died and released the sphincter when it did.
> If you have dumpdev='AUTO'
> dumpdir='/var/crash'
> in your rc.conf, then you can find the crash dump in ${dumpdir}, then
> you can use kgdb to retrieve the backtrace from the dump.
>
I got dumpdev="/dev/mirror/gm0s1b", savecore doesnt extract any dumps :/
> Jiawei
>
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