Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:31:10 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repeated UFS panics? Message-ID: <46D558FE.6050502@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <46D53FA5.1000606@fer.hr> References: <fas4rs$ur$1@sea.gmane.org> <200708261948.05750.qpadla@gmail.com> <fasnja$np6$1@sea.gmane.org> <46D41DAE.5010501@freebsd.org> <46D4A944.5060300@fer.hr> <46D4D421.90602@tomjudge.com> <46D53FA5.1000606@fer.hr>
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Ivan Voras wrote: > Tom Judge wrote: > >> It would be easier to attach a serial console to the system, even if >> it is in the form of a second machine and null modem cable. The >> handbook will hold your had if you want to try setting it up. > > No need for that - I'm running it under VMWare so I can route serial > ports between VMs. > > The big problem is that most of the panics happen with cd9660 as the > root file system (LiveCD setup) and I'll have to see what I can do with > serial ports in this environment. But it's a good idea. > When I get a panic while in X, I can now (recently - this was not true 3 or 4 months ago) just type "call doadump [enter] reset [enter]" and I'll get a crash dump and the system will reboot. I then analyze the dump later. I can't see the text, but it actually *is* in the debugger (for me anyway). That's how I tracked this dirbad issue down when I saw it the first time. Eric
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