Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:03:49 +0400 From: Dmitry Samersoff <dms@wplus.net> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need advice (server continue dies) Message-ID: <3AC08FB5.A79E058A@wplus.net> References: <XFMail.010327190918.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <3AC066DC.EB973AE1@wplus.net> <20010327154846.A2374@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:32PM +0400, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: > > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > > > On 27-Mar-01 Dmitry Samersoff wrote: > > > > I also have a kernel crash dump and could post it here if no one can > > > > give me a good advice without it ;-))) > > > > > > If you haven't compiled the kernel with debugging symbols then you should do so.. > > > > I done it but it's remote server and I have a problem to get valid > > crash dump - > > last attempt was unsuccessful - I see the only file "minfree" > > in /var/crash > > Have you run dumpon and/or savecore? You need to at least run dumpon > *before* the kernel crashes, to tell it what device to dump on; later, > when the machine reboots, you want to run savecore to fetch the coredump, > and store it into /var/crash. > > This is all best done by specifying dumpdev in rc.conf. You'll have to > manually run dumpon the first time, before the machine crashes; after > the crash, the rc scripts shall run both dumpon and savecore, because > the dumpdev setting in rc.conf tells them to. Thank you! I run dumpon now and insert it in rc.conf The only thing I can ask hosting support is press <CTRL-ALT-ESC> on crash and then type "panic". Is it enough to get a good kernel core? -- Dmitry Samersoff, dms@wplus.net, ICQ:3161705 http://devnull.wplus.net * There will come soft rains ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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