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 23:29:30
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:19:21PM +0000, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > It crashed early this morning, and restarted.   It had been running for
> > > 35 days.
> >
> > Without human intervention ?
> 
> Yes, on its own.
> 
> > 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
> 
> Alas, no core dump, nothing unusual in /var/log/messages, dmesg.

Do you have enouth swap for a core dump ? You need a swap partition as
big as RAM, and not on raidframe.

> 
> Maybe it's some flaky h/w.

Or human error with power switch, power cable, ... ?

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