Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:54:20 -0700 From: "David" <vetter_david@sbcglobal.net> To: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, "Stijn Hoop" <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ! Fatal trap 12: System Crash twice in last 2 days Message-ID: <001f01c24987$38ae39f0$c26dc33f@handbasket> References: <025201c24833$3144f550$b50d030a@PATRICK> <03b601c24859$1648e380$b50d030a@PATRICK> <20020820145221.GJ88937@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <040d01c2485a$8ddcf5c0$b50d030a@PATRICK> <002901c248c2$9f1a4730$c26dc33f@handbasket> <001e01c248f5$e37a84c0$b50d030a@PATRICK> <20020821094552.GN78608@wantadilla.lemis.com> <012601c24915$492d6d90$b50d030a@PATRICK>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> > Gents, > > Following this advice from Greg: > > The best choice would be 4.6-STABLE. But better still would be to > > find out what's going on, rather than trying to work around in the > > dark. > > I followed the destructions at http://www.onlamp.com/ for compiling a > debugging kernel and have now been running for almost 2 1/2 hours: > > # uname -srp > FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE i386 > # uptime > 3:08PM up 2:23, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > # > > Hmmm.. A watched kettle never boils ... :) > > As a good friend of mine always says: > Moony's Law (counterpart to Murphy's Law): > When demonstrating an error, > anything which can go right, will. > > Have you had any news yet David? Nope. :) Same experience. I built a debug kernel with a number of options and haven't had a problem since. Debug options I used: # Include debugging information makeoptions DEBUG=-g #Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE options DIAGNOSTIC options DDB options PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME=-1 Otherwise I followed all the instructions at the onlamp site. The few things I had been doing which always seemed to trigger the problem have all worked properly since putting in the debugging kernel (buildworld, some of my portupgrade attempts, etc). Oh well. Will keep it there and see what happens. I'll probably schedule my system to do a nightly buildworld (not install it, just build it) to see if I can trigger it overnight. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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