From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 08:59:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20111 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from elvis.vnet.net (elvis.vnet.net [166.82.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20084 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by elvis.vnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA01162; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:59:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00568; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:44:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id KAA00739; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:16:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:16:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199807291416.KAA00739@lakes.dignus.com> To: Les.LaCroix@Carleton.edu, rivers@dignus.com Subject: Re: (long) page fault in kernel mode: suggestions? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4050998457.901699163@miranda.INFOZOO.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > --On Wednesday, July 29, 1998, 6:11 AM -0400 "Thomas David Rivers" > wrote: > > > If you config and build a new kernel with debugging on, you can run > > gdb -k on the new crash and get more information. > > > > To build a debuggable kernel, us > > config -g KERNEL_CONFIG_FILE > > Sorry I didn't speak to that in the original note. The gdb output included > in the first note was from a kernel built with config -g. > > > You mention that the problem occurs with 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 - my problems > > didn't begin until I installed 2.2.6. Did you have this box sucessfully > > set up with a version prior to 2.2.6? > > No. The machine is less than a week old. In fact, I _was_ going to try > installing 2.2.5, but I didn't see it on the ftp archives once I thought > about trying to retrograde. Are the older releases tucked further down in > the ftp directory, or maybe on a different server? I don't believe the older distributions are available on the FreeBSD server. However, you might find a mirror, or some other server that still had them. A search on Yahoo, and/or archie might be worthwhile > > I'm a relative newbie; the 2.2.6 CDs are the first CDs I personally own. > The FreeBSD boxes at work were installed by someone else. He gave the 2.2.5 > CDs to a student, assuming we wouldn't need them any more. I'm trying to > track them down. > If you can find them, and if 2.2.5 works on that hardware; it might help to narrow down the issues around this problem... - Thanks - - Dave R. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message