finally a crash dump on 5.3

[J.D. Bronson]

At 09:32 AM 1/6/2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>On 2005-01-06 08:56, "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson at wixb.com> wrote:
> > I was up for 2wks and today saw this:
> >
> > Fatal trap 12 - page fault while in kernel mode
> > CPUID 0 APIC ID 0
> > Fault write address = 0x418ad66c
> > Fault code = supervisor write, page not present
> > [...]
> >
> > What do I do with this information now that I finally have it ?
>
>During the next boot, savecore should save a crash dump in /var/crash
>(assuming one was successfully saved in swap when the crash happened).
>
>Look at the Developers Handbook for details about obtaining a stack
>trace of the kernel at the moment of the crash:
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html


Well so much for that idea :(

9:43:24am /var/crash> ls -al
total 6
drwxr-x---   2 root  wheel  512 Dec 29 18:25 .
drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel  512 Jan  6 09:37 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    5 Nov  4 19:27 minfree






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