[geeks] FreeBSD, the saga continues

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> I don't know.  I haven't had a chance to see one yet.  By the time I get
> to the console it's already rebooting.

Hrm.  You may want to try turning on savecore.  IIRC, the panic message
and backtrace are saved in the crash file.  Add this to /etc/rc.conf:

dumpdev="AUTO"
dumpdir="/somewhere/with/lots/of/free/space"
savecore_flags=""

Then, run 'dumpon /path/to/your/swap/slice'.  The next time the system
crashes, it'll generate a crash file on reboot.

I'm genuinely curious what's breaking on your system.  FreeBSD is rock
solid on nearly everything I've tried to run it.

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