Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:35:51 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: System down, won't come up (was: Oh, no....) Message-ID: <20060902040551.GI25190@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> References: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org>
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--8/UBlNHSEJa6utmr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 1 September 2006 at 20:30:24 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my > FreeBSD has kernel crashed. The kernel err is 18 I believe a > int divide by zero. I backup most stuff regularly but still have > several megs of data files. Can I fix this with a fixit disk? > Or is all hope lost? > > gary > > "Fatal trap 18: blah, blah.... > > "Uptime 1sec" It sounds like you forgot to say "it crashed and won't come up again". There are dozens of reasons why this could happen. What about booting the backup kernel? If that doesn't work either, you could have hardware problems, or you could have corrupted system binaries. In the latter case, the fixit disk might help, but I'd certainly try the backup kernel before the fixit disk: it's much easier. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --8/UBlNHSEJa6utmr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE+QMfIubykFB6QiMRAmUdAJ0akeuJZH43n5DZQS9dFwh6/3ovvACeMw8E SPZL/AazgAyYvlB4C+cRLk8= =QyU5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8/UBlNHSEJa6utmr--
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