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Date:      Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:43:52 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing.
Message-ID:  <20050701184352.GA177@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050629100535.GC27557@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <42BF8815.6090909@atopia.net> <20050627081933.GA97832@cell.sick.ru> <42C16394.4040904@atopia.net> <1119971279.36316.45.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <42C16C0E.9090002@atopia.net> <20050629100535.GC27557@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:05:35AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:26:06AM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
>=20
> > >OK, when it crashes next and is sat at the "db>" prompt, type "tr" and
> > >press enter to get a trace.  Copy this down (or have a serial console =
to
> > >capture the output).  Also, try typing "call doadump()" and see if that
> > >succeeds in generating a crash dump.  How were you trying to generate
> > >one before?
> > >
> > >Gavin
> > >=20
> > >
> >=20
> > I can't type anything.  The machine locks up.
> >=20
> > See: http://paste.atopia.net/126
> >=20
> > After CPUID: 1, the machine locks cold and nothing else is printed to=
=20
> > the screen.
>=20
> Try two things:
>=20
> 1) adding 'options KDB_STOP_NMI' to your kernel config.

I just learned that you also need to set the
debug.kdb.stop_cpus_with_nmi=3D1 sysctl (e.g. in sysctl.conf).

Kris

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