Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:40:55 -0800 (PST) From: Joe Schmoe <non_secure@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What kind of crash is this ? (kernel ? userland ? ) Message-ID: <20040201024055.19137.qmail@web21505.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, I have become familiar with certain FreeBSD crashes - namely, I can tell the difference between the kernel crashing, and the userland crashing. If the machine is down, but I can still ping it, then the userland has crashed - the kernel is still running, which is why it responds to pings. But if it crashes and just reboots itself, then the kernel has crashed. Oversimplified I know, but I am leading up to: What kind of a crash is it if: I can ssh to the system, it gives me the BSD copyright and the uname message, but never ever gives me a prompt. What is going on in this scenario ? What kind of things have you seen that cause a crash like this ? thanks. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
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