i386/47647: init died with signal 6

[João Carlos Mendes Luís]

The following reply was made to PR i386/47647; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= <jonny at jonny.eng.br>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org,
	Alessandro Fernandes Martins <amartins at embratel.net.br>
Subject: Re: i386/47647: init died with signal 6
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 01:57:47 -0300

 I am not the owner of the machine, but in the recent past I helped to 
 configure it.  The strange part is that the same init runs with an older 
 kernel, so it's probably not a problem in init itself.
 
 Signal 6 is SIGABRT, and that should be used only in assert calls, IIRC. 
   Do you think it is possible to find where (and why) in init the abort 
 ocurred?  Should then he build an init with debugging symbols also?
 
 The machine is a very important production machine (backbone squid 
 cache) and is not easy to stop it to test, so I'd like to minimize the 
 tests to do.
 
 Thanks for your help...
 
 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 > On 2003-01-29 17:09, Alessandro Fernandes Martins <amartins at embratel.net.br> wrote:
 > 
 >>I'm trying to update my FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE to 4.7-STABLE and I'm
 >>getting this message when I boot with the 4.7-STABLE kernel:
 >>
 >>[cutted]
 >>init died (signal 6, exit 0)
 >>panic: Going nowhere without my init!
 >>mp_lock = 00000001; cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 01000000
 >>boot() called on cpu #1
 >>
 >>Also, I would like to say that the system was running with FreeBSD
 >>4.6-STABLE for 204 days.
 > 
 > 
 > Can you build a kernel with debugging symbols and try to obtain a kernel
 > dump?  For instructions about this, have a look at:
 > 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
 
                                          Jonny
 
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