Re: Hi - identifying cause of crash - a how to please

2010-03-02 Thread David Southwell
> David Southwell wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a specific situation which causes a system crash on freebsd 7.2 p3 > > amd64 on intel quad core. Can someone teach me how to trace the cause? > > > > The crash is repeatable in the following circumstances: > > > > > > (a) User logs in > > (b) % startx

Re: Hi - identifying cause of crash - a how to please

2010-03-02 Thread Michael Powell
David Southwell wrote: > Hi > > I have a specific situation which causes a system crash on freebsd 7.2 p3 > amd64 on intel quad core. Can someone teach me how to trace the cause? > > The crash is repeatable in the following circumstances: > > > (a) User logs in > (b) % startx > (c) kde4 loads

Hi - identifying cause of crash - a how to please

2010-03-02 Thread David Southwell
Hi I have a specific situation which causes a system crash on freebsd 7.2 p3 amd64 on intel quad core. Can someone teach me how to trace the cause? The crash is repeatable in the following circumstances: (a) User logs in (b) % startx (c) kde4 loads and works the session (d) user logs out x s

Re: Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Is there some setting I should set so that in future crashes will be dumped there [/var/crash]? Never mind, I've just found what I needed in man rc.conf, I've now set dumpdev and dumpdir in rc.conf and am rebuilding the kernel with de

Re: Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Robert Huff wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg writes: I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after 17/Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash. Is there any

Re: Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:16:17AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after 17/ > Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). > > I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash. > It's just that a few ho

Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Huff
Jeffrey Goldberg writes: > I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after > 17/Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). > > I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash. Is there anything in /var/crash?

Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after 17/ Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash. It's just that a few hours later I noticed that the system was down, and had to power cycle the