5.1-CURRENT rebooting (multile systems) -- How to troubleshoot?
Tom Parquette
tparquet at twcny.rr.com
Sat Oct 18 18:31:30 PDT 2003
Hi. This is the third time I've tried to write this Email. Things keep
failing out from under me.
This did not happen before I cvsuped Oct 14 to get around the -pthread
problem with ports.
Either my server (I NFS mount /home from the server machine) or the
desktop machine have failed unpredictably multiple times. Sometimes
under load, sometimes it appears they fail overnight when only
setiathome is running on them. They are dual processor Athlon machines.
I have not seen any messages from any of these failures. I have seen
one failure on the server that indiated a page fault in kernel mode. I
didn't write all of the information down because I thought it would be
logged in one of the logs. Wrong again idiot!!
I do not have any doc on these and generic searches didn't turn up
anything I can hang my hat on.
My question is, if the system fails (I'm assuming these are panics) how
do I get the machine to NOT automatically reboot so I can copy down the
failure information? (Unless these are logged somewhere I have not
found yet.)
I'm frustrated because I cannot get any information on the failures to
even begin to formulate a sane posting to the list.
Sorry for the rambling posting. I'm venting a little. I'm used to
fixing mainframe system software. I am still trying to learn the skills
on my own for FreeBSD.
TIA for any help.
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