Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:08:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, mistwolf@ethereal.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A suggested kernel enhancement relating to kernel panics. Message-ID: <19990618100818.P9893@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <28890.929659712@monkeys.com>; from Ronald F. Guilmette on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 03:48:32PM -0700 References: <19990617174029.B7287@dan.emsphone.com> <28890.929659712@monkeys.com>
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On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 15:48:32 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <19990617174029.B7287@dan.emsphone.com>, you wrote: > >> In the last episode (Jun 17), Thomas David Rivers said: >>> >>> If you have the savecore file from the panic, I've done >>> this in the past: >>> >>> strings savecore.XX | grep "panic" >>> >>> usually the message pops right out :-) >> >> When savecore saves a core, it logs the panic string via syslog: >> >> if (panicstr) >> syslog(LOG_ALERT, "reboot after panic: %s", panic_mesg); >> else >> syslog(LOG_ALERT, "reboot"); >> >> So it's in /var/log/messages too. You're assuming that syslog is still running. We're in a panic situation here. > Well, I am getting sudden/unexpected reboots and this has happened > several times now. Each time I look in /var/log/messages and there > is NOTHING there... That's normal. When you panic, you stop writing to disk (except for the dump). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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