CDROM Unknown Transfer Error crashes system

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Oct 12 11:03:04 PDT 2005


Wayne Witzke <wwitzke at sstire.com> writes:

> I'm a little confused...  I thought I had RELENG_5_4.  "uname -a" says:
> 
> FreeBSD wlaptop 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #1: Thu Oct  6
> 21:18:29 EDT 2005
>       root at wlaptop:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WLAPTOP  i386
> 
> Isn't this RELENG_5_4?

It was, but some patches have been applied since the release was
made.  I was suggesting RELENG_5, not RELENG_5_4; in other words, the
branch that will eventually become the 5.5 release.

> Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> >>Is there anything that I can do to capture more information the next
> >>time my computer reboots spontaneously?
> > Try to get a crash dump.  There's more information on it in the
> > Handbook.  And some related information on panic analysis (if you can
> > get it to that point) in the FAQ.
> >
> 
> I'll try that, it doens't sound too difficult.  Just so I know, if I
> was going to see a kernel panic message, I'd be seeing one before the
> computer reboots, right?

I thought that was what you were describing in earlier messages.


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