From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 21:41:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8874E16A41A for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:41:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clint@0lsen.net) Received: from QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C6A413C468 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:41:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clint@0lsen.net) Received: from OMTA12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.44]) by QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id HZU91Y00B0xGWP80503M00; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:41:54 +0000 Received: from 0lsen.net ([24.20.127.157]) by OMTA12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id HZhu1Y00B3Pt6RU0300000; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:41:54 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=SvO1ZlY_sx0A:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=6bBqW7KpvDWbtgj0tR8A:9 a=4bwFgWS1KLQeRPdMCGhy2BOPAO4A:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by 0lsen.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7118E78C8B; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:41:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:41:49 -0800 From: Clint Olsen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071126214149.GA98304@belle.0lsen.net> References: <20071102095628.GA796@0lsen.net> <472AF94B.1020600@gmx.de> <20071111043931.GA1460@0lsen.net> <4736F9A4.1020606@andric.com> <20071111183713.GA3506@0lsen.net> <20071111115602.91xrq6thygowgooc@webmail.1command.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071111115602.91xrq6thygowgooc@webmail.1command.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: NULlsen Network X-Disclaimer: Mutt Bites! Subject: Re: Ok, so now what? Binary upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:41:55 -0000 On Nov 11, Chris H. wrote: > It's as simple as making your swap slice available for dumping, and > adding a line in your rc.conf file. Of course you'll need to "lift" the > information of interest from the vmcore, for the dump to be of any value. > :) > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html#KERNELDEBUG-OBTAIN > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html > > It's really a simple process. Heh, simple is relative :) But it doesn't look that bad -- thanks for the information. I'll likely need this at some point. Unfortunately I did not have the luxury to embroil myself in debug hell with this problem since this is my mail/web machine and others depend on it. I can tolerate some downtime, but this was just getting to be too much. I just backed up the system, and installled FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE from scratch and most things are back up and running after a night until 3am. Yuck, I don't ever want to have to deal with something like this again. Hopefully after I get brave enough I /might/ entertain jumping onto a STABLE branch again... Thanks, -Clint