Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:38:56 +0100 From: <1@movesmountains.com> To: "'eculp'" <eculp@casasponti.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days nowwith FreeBSD stable 7.0 Message-ID: <007a01c8cc67$c16aaa30$f001a8c0@asgard.movesmountains.com> In-Reply-To: <20080611142255.15431txbrywv1csg@intranet.casasponti.net>
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I had a similar problem when I tried to use kgdb to diagnose a page fault. I found that it worked fine on another vmcore from the next crash - without any knowledge of the subject, I assume that sometimes when FreeBSD crashed it was unable to write a correct vmcore? Anyway, try it again with other vmcores; I did not specifically enable debugging in the kernel but still got a sensible trace. Yours, Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of eculp > Sent: 11 June 2008 20:23 > To: Kris Kennaway > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two > consecutive days nowwith FreeBSD stable 7.0 > > Quoting "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.org>: > > > eculp wrote: > >> This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram > running up > >> to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be > >> provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running > FreeBSD > >> I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a > >> simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and > installs a > >> new world and kernel. Ports are updated about once a week and > >> haven't seen any issues previously. It has been running > 24/7 since > >> new, about 8 months. > >> > >> 3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore. The info > file follows: > >> > >> Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b > >> Architecture: i386 > >> Architecture Version: 2 > >> Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB) > >> Blocksize: 512 > >> Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008 > >> Hostname: casasponti.net > >> Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump > >> Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10 > 05:54:42 CDT 2008 > >> root@casasponti.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO > >> Panic String: page fault > >> Dump Parity: 2395754794 > >> Bounds: 2 > >> Dump Status: good > >> > >> the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it > >> on line at a moments notice. I think that what I need is > probably > >> a crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where > >> to start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed > >> it. Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated. > > > > See the developers' handbook chapter on kernel debugging. > > Thanks Kris. I did that and I'm assuming that since > debugging was not > enabled in my kernel I got: > > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO # kgdb kernel.debug > /var/crash/vmcore.2 > GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] > Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public > License, and you are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under > certain conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show > warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"... > Cannot access memory at address 0x0 > (kgdb) > > I assume it will only work with the new kernel because the > kernel.debug only got to Cannot access memory at address 0x4b55. > Which means I have to wait for another crash. > > I have already compiled a new kernelwith debuging and will reboot > tonight to install the kernel and hopefully will never need > to test it. > > Thanks for your help, > > ed > > > > > However, panics that "suddenly" start happening frequently on a > > system that has been stable for a while with no OS or workload > > changes made, are usually due to the hardware starting to fail. > > > > Kris > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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