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Date:      Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:15:52 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Patrick O'Reilly <bsd@perimeter.co.za>
Cc:        David <vetter_david@sbcglobal.net>, Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>, FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ! Fatal trap 12: System Crash twice in last 2 days
Message-ID:  <20020821094552.GN78608@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <001e01c248f5$e37a84c0$b50d030a@PATRICK>
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Broken quoting.

On Wednesday, 21 August 2002 at 11:33:52 +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
> From: "David" <vetter_david@sbcglobal.net>
>>
>> Actually, I'm seeing the same problem.  I found a page which gave
>> me some info on how to prepare for a crash and what to do with it
>> once it happens.
>>
>>
>> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1
>>
>> I'm still trying to get a crashdump but haven't been able to yet.
>> savecore keeps telling me that no core was found.  I'm trying again
>> now, though, as I can get the fatal trap to happen fairly
>> regularly. :)
>
> Ah - Now I don't feel so lonely anymore!
>
> Thanks for your input David.
>
> My box has gone down another two times during the night!  And this is
> after doing a fresh 'make world' which has re-built 4.6.2-RELEASE.  This
> is very embarrassing :(
>
> We should compare notes to try to narrow this thing down!
> MoBo     : Asus
> CPU      : Athlon 1700

We need the chipset as well.  Can you post the content of
/var/run/dmesg.boot?

> Stability was 100% until about 3 days ago.  As memory serves, the
> changes which coincide with that date are cvsup from 4.6.1-p## to
> 4.6.2, and portupgrade mrtg-2.9.21 to mrtg-2.9.22.  In future I will
> be keeping a strict logbook of changes to help narrow down problems
> like this!
>
> Right now I am considering either reverting to 4.6.1, or 4.6-STABLE
> which was suggested by Byron Schlemmer.

The best choice would be 4.6-STABLE.  But better still would be to
find out what's going on, rather than trying to work around in the
dark.

Greg
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