Server reboots at random :-(

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:29:41AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:29:00PM -0400, BarryFriedman at www1.emax.ca wrote:
> > Any ideas about how to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Start with enabling crash dumps to see if it is a kernel issue or
> a hardware issue:
> 
> In /etc/rc.conf:
> 
>     dumpdev="AUTO"
>     dumpdir="/usr/crash"
> 
> The second reboot will take muuuuch longer because it is saving
> this, but it gives some information to start with.
> 
> See also
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
> and following.
> 

You might also want to setup virtual serial and enable console on serial.
Then you can use conserver to log anything and check after a reboot.

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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