Latest "stable" fixes are unstable

[Mike Tancsa]

Hi,
         First off, there is no 5.0 STABLE. If you cvsup'd to 5.x this is 
the source of your problems as that is the development branch.

To better understand what problems you are having, you need to give 
information like a crash dump.

Compile a debug kernel for the machine that is crashing
See
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html

enable the saving of your core dump on your swap partition. e.g. if you 
have it on a 3ware card add
dumpdev="/dev/twed0b"         # Device name to crashdump to (or NO).
dumpdir="/var/crash"    # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored
to /etc/rc.conf
and reboot or type /sbin/dumpon /dev/twed0b

or if you have an ide drive and the swap is on ad0s1b, then
/sbin/dumpon /dev/ad0s1b

when your machine crashes / panics,

type
gdb -k kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0

and type bt

send the results to the stable list, which if you track stable you should 
be following.

         ---Mike


At 03:36 PM 09/10/2003, Jeffrey Wheat wrote:
>After applying the last set of patches via a cvs
>run of RELENG_4, I have servers crashing and rebooting
>that had run for months on end prior to the "fixes".
>
>This is happening on 4.8-STABLE (now called 4.9-RC)
>and on 5.0-STABLE servers. I am really concerned about
>about this as are my higher ups. I have been running
>FreeBSD on my servers for the past 8 years and I am
>very familiar with how to build kernels, update source
>trees, etc. Reverting back to the sources prior to
>the recent kernel changes, makes things stable again.
>
>Can anyone shed light on this or speak up if you are
>having the same problems?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Jeff
>
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