Re: Experiencing hangs on SMP box with no console messages given for clues. Details inside.

From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman_at_seekingfire.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:14:23 -0600
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:49:21PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote:
> 2007/3/10, Tillman Hodgson <tillman_at_seekingfire.com>:
> >I'm trying to follow the instructions at
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING
> >and in
> >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1
> >but I'm running into an issue even getting gdb to start:
> >
> >[root_at_athena /var/crash]# which gdb
> >/usr/bin/gdb
> >[root_at_athena /var/crash]# gdb -k
> >gdb: unrecognized option `-k'
> >Use `gdb --help' for a complete list of options.
> >
> >The man page doesn't list a -k option either. /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't
> >seem to mention any gdb changes.
> 
> man kgdb

[root_at_athena /var/crash]# kgdb -n 1
[GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
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Unread portion of the kernel message buffer:
KDB: enter: Line break on console
panic: from debugger
cpuid = 0
Uptime: 12h59m41s
Physical memory: 1011 MB
Dumping 201 MB: 186 170 154 138 122 106 90 74 58 42 26 10

#0  doadump () at pcpu.h:147
147     pcpu.h: No such file or directory.
        in pcpu.h
(kgdb) where
#0  doadump () at pcpu.h:147
#1  0xc06c234c in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:411
#2  0xc06c2656 in panic (fmt=0xc09095f3 "from debugger") at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:567
#3  0xc0477542 in db_panic (addr=-1066528405, have_addr=0, count=-1, modif=0xe2986a40 "") at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:433
#4  0xc04774db in db_command (last_cmdp=0xc0a23264, cmd_table=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:401
#5  0xc0477596 in db_command_loop () at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:453
#6  0xc04791e1 in db_trap (type=3, code=0) at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_main.c:222
#7  0xc06e1444 in kdb_trap (type=3, code=0, tf=0xe2986bd8) at /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_kdb.c:502
#8  0xc08c0cfd in trap (frame=0xe2986bd8) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:621
#9  0xc08aaefb in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:139
#10 0xc06e116b in kdb_enter (msg=0x22 <Address 0x22 out of bounds>) at cpufunc.h:60
#11 0xc089f232 in siointr1 (com=0xc40b4000) at /usr/src/sys/dev/sio/sio.c:1522
#12 0xc089f029 in siointr (arg=0xc40b4000) at /usr/src/sys/dev/sio/sio.c:1391
#13 0xc08afb15 in intr_execute_handlers (isrc=0xc3ef4cc8, frame=0xe2986c94) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/intr_machdep.c:270
#14 0xc08b208b in lapic_handle_intr (vector=34, frame=0xe2986c94) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/local_apic.c:622
#15 0xc08ab2c4 in Xapic_isr1 () at apic_vector.s:90
#16 0xc0c000b5 in ?? ()
#17 0xe2986cfc in ?? ()
#18 0xc08b3d90 in cpu_idle () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:1150
Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

If I'm understanding what I'm reading, this isn't all that helpful
because it's just saying that I broke into the kernel debugger and then
issued a manual panic (which is true, that's how I got the core). Is
there a way to obtain information on what was happening before I broke
into the debugger?

-T


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