System Crash - please help me figure it out...

[bsd at perimeter.co.za]

bsd at perimeter.co.za writes: 

> Dear Hackers,  
> 
> I have experienced a system crash for the first time in 10 months (last 
> year in august I had a vinum issue which has been resolved with your 
> help).  
> 
> Fortunately I still have a kernel with debugging enabled running, and the 
> gdbmods script, so I can submit some useful data with this email.  
> 

On further reflection, here is more info which might be usefult to know: 

1) I recently updated to 4.8 RELEASE.  I just looked at the kernel config 
file and noted that I removed the "options VINUMDEBUG" a while ago.  This 
might explain frames 13 through 15 in the crash dump being ?? .  Help me out 
here please... 

2) When upgrading I noted that the source for vinum had been changed in a 
similar way to the patches I received from Greg Lehey and applied in August 
2002, so I did NOT apply the patches again.  Perhaps I should have? 

3) I also recently began using 'gre' devices for some VPN tunnels.  This is 
new in 4.8.  I find it odd (in hindsight) that these are working OK thought 
the "pseudo-device gre" line is absent from my kernel config file ??? 

FYI: kldstat is at http://docs.perimeter.co.za/crash/2003-06/kldstat 

Regards,
Patrick.