help logging a crash

[Reko Turja]

> last week I had a panic which caused the machine to halt and I posted 
> it here. No dump file though and no reply. All I did was telnet into 
> the machine and it panicked.
>
> So...before I give up on 5.3, I wanted to see if there was anything I 
> could do to help the developers track down this reboot_at_random 
> troubles.

See the developers hanbook from the FreeBSD website:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ 
Section III chapter 11. FreBSD is quite well documented once you know 
where to find the information - and most of it can be found in the 
FreeBSD website.

By the way did you only update the kernel, or did you do 
buildworld/installworld as well?

-Reko