8.3 -> 9.1 results in often crashes.

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Mon Dec 10 12:50:02 UTC 2012


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org>
To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: 8.3 -> 9.1 results in often crashes.


> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:13:39 +0100, Pawel Tyll <ptyll at nitronet.pl> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>> 1. Do you have a full crash dump?
>> Unfortunately no. This is everything that got logged.
>>
>>> 2. Are world and kernel in sync?
>> I believe so. Is there a fool-proof reliable way to check this?
>>
>> It's  crashing  frequently, so I can make changes to get things logged
>> properly, if given pointers.
> 
> Setup the machine to save crash dumps after a crash. If you have that you  
> can extract information from it which will help developers to analyze the  
> issue.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html#kerneldebug-obtain

If you have swap on a raw disk then adding the following to /etc/rc.conf
is usually sufficent
dumpdev="AUTO"

If you don't reboot then run:
/etc/rc.d/dumpon start

    Regards
    Steve

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