Total crash in gdb!.. something is broken!.. Was: Re: FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC?

[Johan Ström]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 08:45 , Jiawei Ye wrote:

> On 9/25/06, Johan Ström <johan at stromnet.org> wrote:
>> Fcking great.. Waking up and noting that the box has rebooted it self
>> during the night... Yay!!... No kernel dumps, nothing in message
>> log.. Nada... (this was on the "first" box, that is the one first in
>> this thread)
>>
>> What exactly does
>>
>> kernel dumps on /dev/mirror/gm0s1b
>>
>> mean? Not that it saves any kernel dumps at least.. But otoh I have
>> no clue why it crashed at all and if it even did try to dump kernel
>> or if it just blacked out as when i tried to debug clamd...
>>
>> --
>> Johan
> It means that the system died and released the sphincter when it did.
> If you have dumpdev='AUTO'
> dumpdir='/var/crash'
> in your rc.conf, then you can find the crash dump in ${dumpdir}, then
> you can use kgdb to retrieve the backtrace from the dump.
>

I got dumpdev="/dev/mirror/gm0s1b", savecore doesnt extract any dumps :/

> Jiawei
>
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