Re: help logging a crash

2005-01-16 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 04:16 PM 1/16/2005, Eric F Crist wrote: It's always a good idea to upgrade the entire system, kernel ad userland. I would recommend doing so and see where you go from there. Yes...I did this now.it was easy and only took an 1hr on a P4-3.06 :) -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Inform

Re: help logging a crash

2005-01-16 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 16, 2005, at 11:18 AM, J.D. Bronson wrote: At 11:15 AM 1/16/2005, you wrote: See the developers hanbook from the FreeBSD website: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ Section III chapter 11. FreBSD is quite well documented once you know where to find the in

Re: help logging a crash

2005-01-16 Thread Reko Turja
for the moment, I only did the kernel. I dont want to spend alot of time on this if its still unstable. Looks like as long as I add DDB to the kernel and make it, I should get some crash dump ? Yes, but you'll need to define the dump device and place to save the dump from the swap in the next r

Re: help logging a crash

2005-01-16 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 11:15 AM 1/16/2005, you wrote: See the developers hanbook from the FreeBSD website: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ Section III chapter 11. FreBSD is quite well documented once you know where to find the information - and most of it can be found in the Fre

Re: help logging a crash

2005-01-16 Thread Reko Turja
last week I had a panic which caused the machine to halt and I posted it here. No dump file though and no reply. All I did was telnet into the machine and it panicked. So...before I give up on 5.3, I wanted to see if there was anything I could do to help the developers track down this reboot_at

Re: help logging a crash

2005-01-16 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 10:49 AM 1/16/2005, you wrote: If you enable debugging in the kernel, IIRC, you should have a dump file in the system root directory when the system crashes. If you tell us a little more about the system you're using, such as hardware, specific services you're running, we might be able to te

Re: help logging a crash

2005-01-16 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 16, 2005, at 10:38 AM, J.D. Bronson wrote: I am having random reboots on my 5.3 system even using GENERIC. I am wondering, what do I have to do to enable some sort of debug/crash log...I dont want the thing to just reboot w/o telling me why. When this happens, there are no logs...just a rebo

help logging a crash

2005-01-16 Thread J.D. Bronson
I am having random reboots on my 5.3 system even using GENERIC. I am wondering, what do I have to do to enable some sort of debug/crash log...I dont want the thing to just reboot w/o telling me why. When this happens, there are no logs...just a reboot and then the FSCK. I believe I need to compile