Re: FreeBSD crashed - trying to find out why

2010-11-14 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:26:39 +0400,
Rakhesh Sasidharan free...@rakhesh.net a écrit :

Hello,

 Any idea why kernel crashed, or what I can do to prevent this in
 future? I understand from the forums that this could be due to bad
 memory or bad hard disk, but I was wondering whether this could also
 be due to any incompatibilities with KVM (triggered by tmux perhaps). 

No idea, the best is to configure the machine to save the dump and
after (if it happens again) submit a trace of the core dump.

This is explained in :
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html

Regards.
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FreeBSD crashed - trying to find out why

2010-11-12 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hello,

I have a FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE machine running inside a KVM VPS. 

I installed tmux a few days back, and today I was trying to update all
my ports via portupgrade. Everything was going fine, so after a while I
detached from the tmux session and disconnected from the machine (was
connected via SSH). When I returned a few hours later, I see that the
machine had rebooted. It appears that the machine rebooted due to a
kernel fault. From the timestamps I see that the machine rebooted some
10-15 minutes before I returned, so it looks like portupgrade and tmux
etc were working fine until then. 

Here's the messages from /var/log/messages - 

-8---
kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
kernel: cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
kernel: fault virtual address   = 0x250
kernel: fault code  = supervisor read data, page not present
kernel: instruction pointer = 0x20:0x8052e574
kernel: stack pointer   = 0x28:0xff800019c8a0
kernel: frame pointer   = 0x28:0xff800019c8c0
kernel: code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
kernel: = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
kernel: processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
kernel: current process = 50496 (tmux)
kernel: trap number = 12
kernel: panic: page fault
kernel: cpuid = 0
kernel: Uptime: 3d22h30m42s
kernel: Cannot dump. Device not defined or unavailable.
kernel: Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to
abort
-8---

I went into all the background about tmux above since the logs highlight
tmux as the currently running process. 

Any idea why kernel crashed, or what I can do to prevent this in future?
I understand from the forums that this could be due to bad memory or bad
hard disk, but I was wondering whether this could also be due to any
incompatibilities with KVM (triggered by tmux perhaps). 

Thanks,
Rakhesh
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