From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 19 22:14:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE3B106566B for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:14:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bogdan@pgn.ro) Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com (mail-ew0-f209.google.com [209.85.219.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08ADB8FC0C for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so1459349ewy.36 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:14:04 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.86.17 with SMTP id v17mr1903407wee.192.1255989207513; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:53:27 -0700 Message-ID: From: Bogdan Webb To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD 7.2 savecore panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:14:06 -0000 Hello. I've got a small issue with my bsd box... I'm a new BSD user and please accept my deepest apologies if i have rushed to use the mailing lists to shout, what may be a silly issue. During the 3 moths the server that i manage had 2 unexpected reboots after some ports were about to be installed. The first time i wasn't paying much attention to the process and can't tell exactly what caused the panic (it was certainly a port install related) but i've paid close attention to this 2nd time. The server runs FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0 on a amd64 arch and it cracked when i tried to install portmanager from the /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmanager tree and using the basic 'make install clean' command. Previously i've made the steps of updating the portsnap collection in order to keep my box up2date. Out of nowhere bsd crashed and using google i've managed to get some info about crash logs: ./messages:Oct 20 00:13:25 pgn savecore: reboot after panic: page fault /var/crash/info.0 Dump header from device /dev/ad10s1b Architecture: amd64 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 426561536B (406 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Thu Sep 10 18:36:20 2009 Hostname: pvp.ro Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 07:18:07 UTC 2009 root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Panic String: page fault Dump Parity: 2499253002 Bounds: 0 Dump Status: good pgn# uname -a FreeBSD pgn.ro 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 07:18:07 UTC 2009 root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 saw some other topic related to issues like this and they pointed out tinkering the rc.conf:dumpdev="AUTO" rc.conf:savecore_flags="" But if i would prolly knew what i'm to do i wouldn't write this long dumb help request :) What's wrong with my bsd box (witch i'm in love so much now) and how can i prevent it from panicking