Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> That should be "dumpdir", not "DUMPDIR". > The default would be /var/crash instead of /usr/crash. > Also, /dev/ad0s1b has to be bigger than your RAM size.
Thank you very much for the reply Lowell,
That DUMPDIR was silly of me, thank you for pointing it out.
I have 1.5 GIGS of RAM and /var is 248 MEGS which is self-explanatory.
> You can try to analyze the panic messages themselves. > There is some guidance for this in the FAQ.
The guidence I read at in the developer's handbook
suggests I obtain a crashdump and post to the list because the info found in a panic (example of one of mine below) is not enough.
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address = 0x4d
fault code = supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc061c642
stack pointer = 0x10:0xf00e1cc4
frame pointer = 0x10:0xf00e1cd0
code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL - 0
current process = 1009 (kdeinit)
trap number = 12
panic: page fault
Uptime: 21m8sSo, I am still trying to obtain a dump.
Thanks to your reply, I did re-read #KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING more carefully and I did try the following.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nm -n /boot/kernel | grep c061c642 nm: Warning: '/boot/kernel' is not an ordinary file
Any ideas on that? The reason I did not try that first was I mistakenly thought I had to first capture the crash dump for some reason.
> Hardware problems would be my first suspicion here.
Me too... if it were not for the fact 5.3-RELEASE is the only OS that has problems on this hardware.
> If you try it again, does it fail in the same place?
No it does not fail in the same place every time but I still do not suspect hardware per se.
For more details on why I believe that statement, please see: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-January/011034.html
Thanks again for the reply it was helpful.
Rick
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