Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:41:49 -0800 From: Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ok, so now what? Binary upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE fails Message-ID: <20071126214149.GA98304@belle.0lsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20071111115602.91xrq6thygowgooc@webmail.1command.com> 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>
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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
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