Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:39:22 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone recognize this panic? Message-ID: <200602261239.23132.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20060226202937.GC14575@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <17409.8562.677322.222883@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200602261124.28829.kstewart@owt.com> <20060226202937.GC14575@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sunday 26 February 2006 12:29, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:24:28AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Unfortunately without a traceback the panic string is useless > > > since it gives you no clue about how the system got into that > > > state. This kind of panic is often a secondary effect of some > > > other problem. > > > > I can cause this to happen almost at will with a Netgear GA311. It > > only happens at boot. It will reboot after the panic just fine and, > > for me, it only happens repeatedly after I do a restart boot from > > XP. It has never happened if I shut the system down first. I have > > moved many GBs of distfiles and packages with out causing a panic. > > > > I haven't found a way to cause a dmp when it panics. At least, what > > I have read doesn't work. So, how can I get a dmp, which I can > > provide a traceback? > > What happens when you 'call doadump' from DDB? > I haven't be able to invoke the debugger at the boot panic and even adding dumpdev to rc.comp doesn't produce a dump file. The /swap and /var are large enough to dump memory. I also haven't added DDB to the kernel config. I guess I need to first get my Digital Rebel, so, I can keep a copy and see what is on the screen when it panics. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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