reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days
nowwith FreeBSD stable 7.0
1 at movesmountains.com
1 at movesmountains.com
Thu Jun 12 09:05:50 UTC 2008
I had a similar problem when I tried to use kgdb to diagnose a page fault.
I found that it worked fine on another vmcore from the next crash - without
any knowledge of the subject, I assume that sometimes when FreeBSD crashed
it was unable to write a correct vmcore? Anyway, try it again with other
vmcores; I did not specifically enable debugging in the kernel but still got
a sensible trace.
Yours,
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of eculp
> Sent: 11 June 2008 20:23
> To: Kris Kennaway
> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two
> consecutive days nowwith FreeBSD stable 7.0
>
> Quoting "Kris Kennaway" <kris at FreeBSD.org>:
>
> > eculp wrote:
> >> This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram
> running up
> >> to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be
> >> provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running
> FreeBSD
> >> I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a
> >> simi-production machine that cvsups daily and builds and
> installs a
> >> new world and kernel. Ports are updated about once a week and
> >> haven't seen any issues previously. It has been running
> 24/7 since
> >> new, about 8 months.
> >>
> >> 3 files were generated info, bounds and vmcore. The info
> file follows:
> >>
> >> Dump header from device /dev/mfid0s1b
> >> Architecture: i386
> >> Architecture Version: 2
> >> Dump Length: 341225472B (325 MB)
> >> Blocksize: 512
> >> Dumptime: Wed Jun 11 12:34:24 2008
> >> Hostname: casasponti.net
> >> Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump
> >> Version String: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #258: Tue Jun 10
> 05:54:42 CDT 2008
> >> root at casasponti.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO
> >> Panic String: page fault
> >> Dump Parity: 2395754794
> >> Bounds: 2
> >> Dump Status: good
> >>
> >> the vmcore is about 300M so I'm not attaching it;) I could put it
> >> on line at a moments notice. I think that what I need is
> probably
> >> a crash course on debugging a crash and I really don't know where
> >> to start since after over 10 years with freebsd I've never needed
> >> it. Any help, suggestions, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > See the developers' handbook chapter on kernel debugging.
>
> Thanks Kris. I did that and I'm assuming that since
> debugging was not
> enabled in my kernel I got:
>
> /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO # kgdb kernel.debug
> /var/crash/vmcore.2
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> This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...
> Cannot access memory at address 0x0
> (kgdb)
>
> I assume it will only work with the new kernel because the
> kernel.debug only got to Cannot access memory at address 0x4b55.
> Which means I have to wait for another crash.
>
> I have already compiled a new kernelwith debuging and will reboot
> tonight to install the kernel and hopefully will never need
> to test it.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> ed
>
> >
> > However, panics that "suddenly" start happening frequently on a
> > system that has been stable for a while with no OS or workload
> > changes made, are usually due to the hardware starting to fail.
> >
> > Kris
> >
>
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