Subject: Re: Cause of 1.6.1 crash?
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/24/2003 21:49:36
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:53:04PM +0000, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> I have a machine at a datacenter, running 1.6.1:
> 
> NetBSD 1.6.1 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Apr  8 12:05:52 UTC 2003
>     autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/netbsd-1-6/i386/OBJ/autobuild/netbsd-1-
> 6/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) (686-class), 930.33 MHz
> total memory = 126 MB
> avail memory = 110 MB
> using 1644 buffers containing 6576 KB of memory
> 
> It crashed early this morning, and restarted.   It had been running for
> 35 days.

Without human intervention ?
If so, maybe you have a core dump, look at /var/log/messages for messages
from savecore.
If you're lucky, maybe you have some bits left in the dmesg
And last, maybe it got enouth time to write usefull messages to
/var/log/messages before crash

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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