Re: How to diagnose crashes?
Chris, The 5.3 have this problem. I think it has something to do with ACPI. Either go back to the 5.2 or pick the latest. You say the system reboots itself from time to time. Is it a panic you see before the reboot? There must be an option to turn on somewhere asking them to write to disk the contents of the physical memory. You can, then, run gdb on the dumped core. I think I have seen someone do that on NetBSD. Srikanth -- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 5 16:52:08 2005 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59EEA16A41C for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:52:08 + (GMT) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: from mx.muttart.org (mx.muttart.org [66.18.201.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2681843D46 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:52:07 + (GMT) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:52:06 -0600 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: How to diagnose crashes? Thread-Index: AcWBfSbLBTVjYpQrS9ycve26kNNCCAABHXeA From: Chris Burchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to diagnose crashes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions freebsd-questions.freebsd.org List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions List-Post: mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:52:08 - My FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE box seems to be spontaneously restarting from time to time. I have not yet contacted the colo facility to determine if it's a power issue, but wonder if anyone can help me out in how to diagnose whether or not it's a server crash and not a power problem. Where should I look for tips / hints that might help me determine the cause of a crash that forced a reboot? Thanks, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to diagnose crashes?
My FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE box seems to be spontaneously restarting from time to time. I have not yet contacted the colo facility to determine if it's a power issue, but wonder if anyone can help me out in how to diagnose whether or not it's a server crash and not a power problem. Where should I look for tips / hints that might help me determine the cause of a crash that forced a reboot? Thanks, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to diagnose crashes?
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:52:06AM -0600, Chris Burchell wrote: My FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE box seems to be spontaneously restarting from time to time. I have not yet contacted the colo facility to determine if it's a power issue, but wonder if anyone can help me out in how to diagnose whether or not it's a server crash and not a power problem. Where should I look for tips / hints that might help me determine the cause of a crash that forced a reboot? See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook. Kris pgpNmEPYUP9eh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to diagnose crashes?
My FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE box seems to be spontaneously restarting from time to time. I have not yet contacted the colo facility to determine if it's a power issue, but wonder if anyone can help me out in how to diagnose whether or not it's a server crash and not a power problem. Where should I look for tips / hints that might help me determine the cause of a crash that forced a reboot? Thanks, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did the reboot occur during a high network load? In my case, the reboots seem to be related to the kernel TCP/IP stack. The box reboots under network load way too often. I don't suspect any other hard problem with it. It handle kernel builds and makeworlds w/o incident. MemTest86 did not find any problems with the memory. I have seen some other posts on this list about this issue. The posters thought it was a problem with SMP kernels. I compiled a uniproc kernel and just had another spontaneous reboot last night! After looking for .core, you may want to capture /dev/console messages to a log file. I am assuming since the box is colo'd, you don't have console access. You may still miss some output though. Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
