On Saturday, 14 August 2004 at 12:17:31 +0200, Eirik verby wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently experiencing frequent (about once per week) hangs of a > server that is about 1500 kilometers away from me. I have a serial > cable on the box, and using minicom on the neighbor box I am now in the > kernel debugger - but I'm at a complete loss as to what to do to figure > out what is, in fact, wrong. > > Calling panic or boot doesn't work - it just stops at "syncing > disks..." and never actually reboots. I suspect something fishy going > on with disk I/O, but I can't be certain of that. > The box responds to ping - until I call panic or boot - but no other > services are working. > > What can I do? I'm now at the db> prompt ... Help :) Well, one possibility would be to debug online. But dumping seems to be broken on recent versions of -CURRENT--see my message on the topic yesterday. Try 'call doadump' instead of 'panic'. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog_at_FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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