Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:48:40 +0200 From: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debugging a dump - need alternative? Message-ID: <200611101148.40793.antik@bsd.ee> In-Reply-To: <20061109154502.02543f87@asusamd> References: <20061109154502.02543f87@asusamd>
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On Friday 10 November 2006 03:45, Robert Marella wrote: > Aloha All > > One of my computers has an Asus A8N-VM motherboard. I have been running > i386 on it for nearly a year. I played around with AMD64 earlier stuck > with the i386. > > Last week I set up a dual boot with i386 and AMD64. The i386 is on a > SATA drive and I installed 6.2 Beta 3 on and IDE Drive. All went well > and I was installing ports from source. When I tried to install K3B it > crashed. > > I then cvsup'd the source (RELENG_6) and tried to update the system. It > was compiling for a few minutes and dumped again. I set "dumpdev" and > "dumdir" in rc.conf and proceded again. It crashed and the dump was > saved. > > Here's my problem: Since this was the first time I was building the > world, I cannot cd to /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNCONF because it doesn't > exist. > > I went to the i386 slice and did the upgrade (also RELENG_6) without > any problem. This seems to tell me that memory is good (2 Gig) and I am > not overheating. > > I mounted the partition for the IDE that has the crash and tried to > read it from the i386 but it can't do it. > > Is there some other way for me to debug the dump? This is the only > AMD64 system that I have. > > All help is appreciated. TIA > > Robert I had exactly the same problem with couple of AMD64 computers (random crashes during buildworld) and believe it or not- troublemaker was PSU (Power Supply Unit) Chieftech 410W if I remember correctly (it works just fine with Intel counterparts).
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