Re: Hangs using X

[Guillermo Garcia Rojas <garciarojas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did not catch it, after it hangs, nothing happens in console on other
boxes, they simply freeze too, after I reboot my /var partition was
damaged, I'm now in a jump from FreeBSD 4.9 to DragonFly.

:(

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:18:04 -0500, Guillermo Garcia Rojas wrote:

> Ok, dumpdev is on, and have 128 Mb RAM, my /var partition is 251 Mb 
> Let's catch this baby.
> 
> On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:49:34 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
>> 
>>     Do you have your system setup to dump core?  The requirements are:
>> 
>>     * That your swap space be at least as large as main memory
>> 
>>     * Add a dumpdev line to your /etc/rc.conf, e.g.  dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b"
>> 
>>     * The /var/crash is on a filesystem with enough space to hold the dump
>>       (the size of main memory).  You can move /var/crash to another
>>       filesystem, e.g. /home, with a softlink if it isn't big enough.  e.g.:
>> 
>>       cpdup /var/crash /home/var.crash
>>       rm -rf /var/crash
>>       ln -s /home/var.crash /var/crash
>> 
>>     Another option if you have a second machine is to connect up the
>>     serial ports with a null modem cable and monitor the console via the
>>     serial port.  To do this you, once it is set up, interrupt the boot
>>     sequence at the loader menu (option 6) and then type 'boot -h' so the
>>     kernel uses the serial port for its console.
>> 
>>     I'd like to pounce on this issue ASAP, especially if its repeatable.  I
>>     would appreciate it if others could try testing for this problem too.
>> 
>>     Guillermo, your 'dmesg' output would also be helpful (but I'm mainly
>>     counting on you being able to get a core dump for us to find this one).
>> 
>> 					-Matt
>> 					Matthew Dillon 
>> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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