panic, then trashed IDE drive - from kernel dump?
Bryan Liesner
bleez at comcast.net
Mon Aug 25 20:15:36 PDT 2003
Just a follow up to this - cannot get it to panic with DDB compiled
in. hmmm...
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Bryan Liesner wrote:
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> The last known good state of my system was a world and kernel from
> Sunday, Aug 24 at approx 12:00 EDT.
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> This problem is from a kernel built from sources current as of
> Aug 26th at approx 22:00 EDT
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> Here's the sequence - I booted the system, had a panic while running
> sysctl from etc/rc.d/devd. It completed a core dump, and rebooted.
> (Good, I thought, this time I'll have a dump for a backtrace).
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> The system rebooted and found no bootable disks. I had to repartition
> the disk and restore from backup. I suspect the dump scribbled all
> over the drive...
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> This is repeatable, and I found out, I have good backups :)
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> Anything I can do to help, please let me know. I'll try to get some
> sort of a backtrace, but I think doing it from a core dump will be
> futile...
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> Thanks.
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