From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 18:07:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A10A16A420 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:07:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E66E43D81 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:07:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jB8I7WgJ005104; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:07:32 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id jB8I7WpB005103; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:07:32 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:07:32 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: David Reid Message-ID: <20051208180732.GA23742@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <439875CF.5020006@jetnet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wac7ysb48OaltWcw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <439875CF.5020006@jetnet.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to get more info X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:07:43 -0000 --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:05:03PM +0000, David Reid wrote: > I'm running -STABLE and at present I'm being lucky to get more than 6 > hours uptime! The problem (and reason for this email) is to ask if there > is anything I can do to try and get more info on th crashes to help > debug and correct them. When the system goes it just reboots, no panic > or information written to any logs. It's been doing it for a while but > the last few days have seen it happening more often. >=20 > I'm running a GENERIC kernel with WITNESS enabled. I'm more than willing > to try and help find/fix the problem, but the lack of information is > stopping me from doing much! While there are other possibilities, this sounds a lot like a hardware problem. Have you tried running memtest86 on the machine -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDmHZjXY6L6fI4GtQRAoytAKDjkh449+YdSRL1ATm2F1ihvPuDDACfT7VM K6Pp2d6nPjxiKQW/ZcTPsXk= =7AEf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--