Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:42:12 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: anyone recognize this panic? Message-ID: <20060226204212.GA15063@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200602261239.23132.kstewart@owt.com> References: <17409.8562.677322.222883@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200602261124.28829.kstewart@owt.com> <20060226202937.GC14575@xor.obsecurity.org> <200602261239.23132.kstewart@owt.com>
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--k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:39:22PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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? > > >=20 > I haven't be able to invoke the debugger at the boot panic and even=20 > adding dumpdev to rc.comp doesn't produce a dump file. The /swap=20 > and /var are large enough to dump memory. >=20 > I also haven't added DDB to the kernel config. I guess I need to first=20 > get my Digital Rebel, so, I can keep a copy and see what is on the=20 > screen when it panics. Well, if you don't have DDB in your kernel config, you certainly won't be able to invoke it when it panics ;-) Kris --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEAhKkWry0BWjoQKURAiVOAJ40Cp/B52EVfz9lSQ1WplvNdlrt7QCbBXWc lq9Y7FWFHkSCR392Jb9yf64= =xHne -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--
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