Random panics with 5.3-REL, SMP

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Thu Nov 25 00:20:01 PST 2004


> A backtrace would be interesting to look at.

indeed.  but i was lucky to get the screen scrape before the
beastie wiped the screen as it auto-rebooted.

> Looks like you just need to set 'dumpdev' in rc.conf.  What is your boot
> device and swap partition(s)?

# grep dump /etc/rc.conf
dumpdev="/dev/twed0s1b" # Device name to crashdump to (or NO).
dumpdir="/var/crash"    # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored

# grep twed0s1b /etc/fstab
/dev/twed0s1b   none            swap    sw              0       0

> if you turn on session logging in your comm program 

comm program?  it's a cisco 2511 term serv being used as a
craft port octopus for 16 devices

randy



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