On 11/04/10 12:35, Richard Morse wrote: > Hi! I'm having a problem with an 8.1-RELEASE #0 amd64 machine.
Looks like too many different problem all at once. Almost certainly there's a hardware problem somewhere. Try running memtest86 > Three weeks ago, it had a kernel panic, which I was too tired to properly > capture. On reboot, I forgot to run fsck in single user mode; about 12-14 > hours later it crashed complaining that the background file system checks > were inconsistent. > > A day later it crashed with a "server double fault"; I was unfortunately on > the way to a meeting, along with all of my technical co-workers, so I wasn't > able to see the screen, and it was being reported by someone who was poorly > equipped to give a good report. > > A few days later, it had hung (it didn't respond to input), and I needed to > hard restart. > > A few days later, the same thing happened. > > Last weekend, on Friday evening it complained about the hard disk controller > disappearing (at least, as far back as I was able to go in the screen buffer). > > Saturday night, I finally got a kernel panic that I captured; after this, I > turned on core dumps. > > However, last night, it crashed again, and tried to write out a core, but > didn't succeed. > > The kernel panic from Saturday night was: > > panic: unknown cluster size > cpuid = 0 > Uptime: 1h49m37s > Cannot dump. Device not defined or unavailable. > aac0: shutting down controller... > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > cpuid = 9; apic id = 10 > fault virtual address = 0x1d > fault code = supervisor write data, page not present > ... > current process = 12 (irq256: em0) > trap number = 12 > done > > Last night's: > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > cpuid = 9; apic id = 11 > fault virtual address = 0x8098f90e > fault code = supervisor read data, page not present > ... > current process = 97530 (taper) > trap number = 12 > panic: page fault > cpuid = 9 > Uptime: 3d21h24m57s > Physical memory: 12211MB > Dumping 2942MB: > > Note that there was nothing after the "Dumping 2942MB:"; the cursor was > sitting just after the colon. On reboot, it did not find any cores to save to > disk (I did have to boot single user and fsck -y; is it possible that this > interfered with the core dump? if so, how do I fix this?). > > I tried, this morning, to run memtest86, however both 3.5 and 3.4 just give > loud annoying beeps, not displaying anything on screen (not even a menu; once > I get past the boot loader from the memtest86 cd, it just starts beeping). > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Ricky > > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is > addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail > contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine > at > http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in > error > but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and > properly > dispose of the e-mail. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
