What do I do with a kernel panic's dump?

[Alexander Mayfield]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Alexander Mayfield <alexmayfield at carolina.rr.com> writes:
> 
>> Right, so I've got my 6.0-RELEASE up and running, and I'm slowly, but
>> surely getting it configured how I like it.  80x50 console, all my
>> favorite programs, life is quite good.
>>
>> However, just recently, when browsing the web, the kernel panicked on
>> me.  I was currently just browsing the web in Opera, doing a
>> portsmanager -u in the my second console, with centericq running in 7
>> and irssi in 8.  Since I was in X at the time, I had no idea what it
>> was doing until it rebooted itself.  When I rebooted, I found out that
>> it had made a few files in my /var/crash/ directory, how thoughtful.
>> The shorter of the two files read like the following:
>>
>> Dump header from device /dev/ad1s2b
>>    Architecture: i386
>>    Architecture Version: 2
>>    Dump Length: 1072234496B (1022 MB)
>>    Blocksize: 512
>>    Dumptime: Sat Mar  4 07:27:20 2006
>>    Hostname: alexmax.localdomain
>>    Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump
>>    Version String: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
>>      root at x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>>    Panic String: vm_page_insert: page already inserted
>>    Dump Parity: 3300035405
>>    Bounds: 0
>>    Dump Status: good
>>
>> The other one was quite large, so I will not bore you with the details
>> unless you need them.  However, from there, I have no clue what to do
>> with the dumps.. I now ask where should I start looking for
>> problems...or perhaps what information should I give you?
> 
> Take a look at the FAQ entry titled "How can I make the most of the
> data I see when my kernel panics?"
> 
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I took a look at the FAQ.  Where can I find the instruction pointer?  I 
could not actually see the actual dump, as it happened while I was in X, 
and all I'm left with is the contents of /var/crash/

-Alex