System crashes... what now?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Jan 17 14:46:37 PST 2005


On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:24:33PM +0000, Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a newbie in the FreeBSD thing, and I'm having some problems that I'd like 
> to track down as far as possible. In four days using FreeBSD, my machine has 
> crashed two times, ugh!
> 
> a) first time, with 5.3-RELEASE. Nothing changed about the kernel or base 
> system. Just I leave the system alone compiling some stuff (like X.org) all 
> night and, next day, the system has been crashed: no video output and no 
> response to keyboard nor network.
> 
> b) the second one, this morning with 5.3-STABLE. It was downloading libxslt 
> and, at 13 percent, the system went frozen.
> 
> My question is: after the system has crashed, what can I do? I mean, where can 
> I look for clues about what happened? Log files shows nothing about the 
> incidents, and I'd like to have a clue about what's wrong with FreeBSD and my 
> machine.
> 
> Ideas?

See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook.

Kris

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